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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the fam-ily arose.
-- 173Chapter 17 he being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon Tme in the expectation of a reply.
-- These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to rideand in that expectation put on her habit upon arising.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured, and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
-- We passed through one of the town gates, and went about three miles into the country, where I saw many labourers working with several sorts of tools in the ground, but was not able to conjecture what they were about: neither did ob-serve any expectation either of corn or grass, although the 218 Gulliver's Travelssoil appeared to be excellent.
-- Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is gone away, and there is no present expectation of his return.
-- I am solely to blame for the thing having come to this and and, I cannot say,' he added, rather hard up for a general peroration, 'that I have any sanguine expectation of ever becoming a moral sort of fellow, or that I have any belief in any moral sort of fellow whatever.'
-- But, the expectation among the people that the man would be found alive was very slight indeed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must have been in expectation of one of two things; either that a vertical well was about to open under his feet, and thus allow him to continue his descent, or that some insurmountable obstacle would compel us to stop and go back by the road we had so long traveled.
-- I was literally buried alive; with no other expectation before me but to die in all the slow horrible torture of hunger and thirst.
-- My eyes were quite prepared for any number of surprises, my imagination lived in expectation of something new and wonderful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- 'And now here's my poor fellow,' Mrs Gowan pursued, 'receiving notice that he is to hold himself in expectation of a baby, and all the expenses attendant on such an addition to his family!Poor Henry!But it can't be helped now; it's too late to help it now.
-- It did not appear altogether comfortable in expectation to Mistress Affery; but Jeremiah, without further reference to his healing medicine, took another candle from Mrs Clennam's table, and said, 'Now, sir; shall I light you down?'
-- Now, poor Flora, being always in fluctuating expectation of the time when Clennam would renew his boyhood and be madly in love with her again, received the whisper with the utmost delight; not only as rendered precious by its mysterious character, but as preparing the way for a tender interview in which he would declare the state of his affections.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew, perfectly understanding the hint, retired to fill it: previously exchanging a remarkable look with Fagin, who raised his eyes for an instant, as if in expectation of it, and shook his head in reply; so slightly that the action would have been almost imperceptible to an observant third person.
-- Oliver looked up at the windows, with tears of happy expectation coursing down his face.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over.
-- With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity, Elizabeth opened the letter, and, to her still in-creasing wonder, perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter-paper, written quite through, in a very close hand.
-- At that ball, while I had the honour of dancing with you, I was first made acquainted, by Sir William Lucas's accidental information, that Bing-ley's attentions to your sister had given rise to a general expectation of their marriage.
-- Chapter 36 f Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did Inot expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.
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