【expect音标】 英[ɪkˈspekt] 美[ɪkˈspekt]
【单词释义】 expect是什么意思：
vt.期望；预料；要求；认为（某事）会发生
vi.预期；期待；怀胎；怀孕
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] expects
[单词现在分词] expecting
[单词过去式] expected
[单词过去分词] expected
【关联词/派生词】
expectation n.期待；预期
expectancy n. [U,C] 预料；预期；期待；盼望
【expect形近词/近似词】
suspect vt.猜疑（是）；怀疑 n.嫌疑犯
retrospect n.回顾；回想；追溯 v.回顾；回想；追溯
respect vt.尊重；尊敬；遵守 n.[U]尊重；尊敬；[C]方面
inspect v.检查，检验；视察
prospect n.前景；预期，展望；期望 vi.勘探；勘察
aspect n.[C]方面；[U,sing.]面貌；样子
introspect v. 反省；内省；自省；反思
【近义词解析】
◇ 要求
ask (v. 要求)：指要求某人提供帮助、建议、信息等。The chairman asked for an explanation
claim ([四级]v. 要求，索要)：指因有权得到某事物而公开提出要求。
demand (v. 要求)：指强烈要求某事物，尤用于认为自己有权这么做时。
expect (v. 要求，期望)：指出于责任或常理而要求某人做某事，含期待之意。
【单词例句】
◇ The increase, up from the current count of 7.7 billion people, is expected despite a continued decline in the global fertility rate, which has fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 births per woman this year.
尽管全球生育率持续下降，但预计届时这一数字仍将远超目前的77亿人口。全球生育率从1990年的3.2下降到今年的2.5。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ A company is going to expect that mistakes will be made at one time or another and they want to understand what sort of trouble you might have caused in the past.
公司认为，员工总会有犯错误的时候，他们想知道你在过去曾造成过什么麻烦。
---- Five most common questions asked at a job interview
◇ "The trial was definitely more pressurised than I would ever have expected. But now I am nervous about when it ends. I don't know anyone who wants to return to the old routine."
“试验期间的工作压力肯定比我预计的更大。但现在我担心的是试行期结束了该怎么办。我认为没有人想回到过去那种工作制。”
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ Still, others argue that reverence for the fourth finger began as an early Christian ritual. While crossing themselves in an Orthodox Church, worshipers are expected to join the thumb with the index and middle fingers.
但仍有其他人争论说，对无名指的敬意源自基督教早期的一种仪式。在东正教教堂里画十字时，信徒们须将拇指和食指、中指相连。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ Plastic has become one of the world's most popular materials, combining amazing functionality and very low production costs. Its use has increased 20-fold in the past 50 years and is expected to double again in the next 20 years.
塑料制品应用广泛、造价低廉，在世界各地都广受人们欢迎。过去五十年中，塑料使用量增长了20倍，并且有望在接下来的20年里再翻一番。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ If, by chance, I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I have the liberty to replace my present wife with another one. Naturally, I will expect a fresh, new life; my wife will take the children and be solely responsible for them so that I am left free.
如果我偶然碰上一个比我现在的老婆更合适做老婆的人，我希望有休掉现在的老婆、重新另娶一个的自由。自然，我向往过一种新鲜的生活；我的老婆将抚养孩子，对他们全权负责。这样，我就可以无牵无挂。
---- I Want a Wife