anticipation
anticipation 英 [ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃn] 美 [ænˌtɪsəˈpeʃən]
n. 预期，期望
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. 预期，期望
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1. He bought extra food in anticipation of more people coming .
他预料来的客人会更多，就多买了食物。
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2. happy anticipation
愉快的期盼
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3. The courtroom was filled with anticipation.
法庭上人们满怀期望的心情。
- 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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