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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was in that painful state of expectation preceding a dreadful report.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agitated by the expectation of seeing her, he walked along the streets, thinking not of the court, but of his conversations with the prosecutor and the inspectors.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.
-- Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears.
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