anticipate
v. 预期; 预计; 期盼; 先于…做
If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning...
那时我们不可能预料到我们这项运动的结果。
It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost...
预计将失去相当于192份全职工作的岗位。
If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs.
What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question...
杰夫预先回答了我的下一个问题。
Do you expect your partner to anticipate your needs?
你是否期望你的伴侣不等你提出就主动满足你的需要?
If you anticipate something, you do it, think it, or say it before someone else does.
In the 50s, Rauschenberg anticipated the conceptual art movement of the 80s.
上世纪50年代时,劳申伯格就早早地预见到了80年代的概念艺术运动。
1. regard something as probable or likely;
2. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
3. realize beforehand
4. make a prediction about; tell in advance;
5. be excited or anxious about
6. be a forerunner of or occur earlier than;
hope, anticipate, await
这些动词均有"希望,期待"之意。
Jim did not anticipate any trouble, but we considered everything carefully and expected the worst.
译文:吉姆没料到会有任何麻烦, 但我们仔细考虑了一切,并做好了最坏的打算.
I anticipate success in effective economic control.
我预料对经济的控制会获得成功的.
I anticipate his arrival at four o'clock.
我期待他4点钟到达.
I anticipate Jackie Chan and the Jet Li cooperation very much!
我很期待成龙和李连杰的合作!
We anticipate meeting a lot of opposition to our new plan for traffic control.
我们预料会遇到许多人反对我们有关交通管理的新计划.