expectation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 预期， 期望， 指望，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On their reaching the courtyard he instinctively altered his tread, as being in expectation of a drawbridge; and when there was no drawbridge, and he saw the carriage waiting in the open street, he dropped his daughter's hand and clasped his head again.
-- With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for sev-eral centuries been on duty watching one stream saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.
-- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over.
-- And he was on the tiptoe of expectation that she would come up to him, would lift her veil.
-- Levin felt now at leaving behind all his family and household cares such an eager sense of joy in life and expectation that he was not disposed to talk.
-- The expectation of snipe was so intense that to Levin the squelching sound of his own heel, as he drew it up out of the mire, seemed to be the call of a snipe, and he clutched and pressed the lock of his gun.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, it was evident, far too much so indeed, that Pyotr Petro-vitch had made eager use of his few days in the capital to get himself up and rig himself out in expectation of his be-trothed a perfectly innocent and permissible proceeding, indeed.
-- Zametov had been sitting in the corner, but he rose at the visitors' entrance and was standing in expectation with a smile on his lips, though he looked with surprise and even it seemed incredulity at the whole scene and at Raskolnikov with a certain embarrassment.
-- 660 Crime and Punishment Chapter IV ou know perhaps yes, I told you myself,' began Svid-'Yriga脙炉lov, 'that I was in the debtors' prison here, for an immense sum, and had not any expectation of being able to pay it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remained, therefore, in a state ofconsiderable expectation until the cloth had been removed somehalf an hour, and we were sitting over our decanter of wine beforethe fire, when the door opened, and Littimer, with his habitualserenity quite undisturbed, announced'Miss Mowcher!'
-- I remarked this inPeggotty, too, when she came down; and I have seen it since; and Ithink, in the expectation of that dread surprise, all other changesand surprises dwindle into nothing.
-- I may havementioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation ofsuch an event.
-- As it approached nearer and nearer to half-past nine o'clock ourrestless expectation of Mr. Micawber increased.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There was a strong expectation of his coming soon after the marriage, but it ended in nothing; and I have not heard him men-tioned lately.'
-- Harriet seemed quite forgotten in the expectation of a pleasant party.
-- Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind by the expectation of Mr. Frank Churchill, was willing to forget his late improprieties, and be as well satis-fied with him as before, and on his making Harriet his very first subject, was ready to listen with most friendly smiles.
-- Certainly his being at Randalls had given great spirit to the last two weeks indescribable spirit; the idea, the expectation of seeing him which every morning had brought, the assurance of his attentions, his liveliness, his manners!It had been a very happy fortnight, and forlorn must be the sinking from it into the common course of Hartfield days.
-- This will be complete enjoyment; and I do not know, Mrs. Elton, whether the uncertainty of our meetings, the sort of constant expectation there will be of his coming in to-day or to-morrow, and at any hour, may not be more friendly to happiness than having him actually in the house.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
-- For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form that of absolute faith is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.
-- 'Safie resolved to remain with her father until the mo-ment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.
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