anticipation
anticipation 英 [ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃn] 美 [ænˌtɪsəˈpeʃən]
n. 希望；预感；先发制人；预支
名词复数:anticipations
- Anticipation is excitement, waiting eagerly for something you know is going to happen. Someone who has just proposed marriage waits in anticipation for a positive reply.
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- n. 希望；预感；先发制人；预支
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1. It is the anticipation of enjoyment, and perhaps there is some element of escape in there too.
那是因为我们已经预感到接下来的阅读快感，也许还有一定希望逃避的成分。
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2. But precisely because everyone knew what was going to happen there was plenty of anticipation.
但是正是因为大家知道将要发生什么，所以会存在着很高的期望。
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3. Have you ever witnessed a missile launch? anticipation and expectation of the sight last much longer than the event itself.
你是否曾目睹过导弹发射？对那一幕的预测与期待甚至比事件本身持续更久。
- anticipation (n.) late 14c., "foreshadowing," from Latin anticipationem (nominative anticipatio) "preconception, preconceived notion," noun of action from past participle stem of anticipare "take (care of) ahead of time," literally "taking into possession beforehand," from anti, an old form of ante "before" (from PIE root *ant- "front, forehead," with derivatives meaning "in front of, before") + capere "to take," from PIE root *kap- "to grasp." Meaning "act of being before another in doing something" is from 1550s. Meaning "action of looking forward to" is from 1809.
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