expect是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 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：
-- 76 FrankensteinChapter 7 n my return, I found the following letter from my Ofather: 'My dear Victor, 'You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
-- Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, thatwas woman's lot.
-- What else can you expect from aYankee man and a white-trash girl?"
-- "Do you expect me to fly into a rage at that?
-- And yet you expect me to listen to orators like Dr. Meade who tell me ourCause is just and holy?
-- And what do you expect to get from me?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't expect it to do me any good.
-- "Pip, old chap!This won't do, old fellow!I say!Where do you expect to go to?"
-- "You see, my dear," added Miss Sarah Pocket (a blandly vicious personage), "the question to put to yourself is, who did you expect to thank you, my love?"
-- Of course, as an honest man, you will expect no other and no more."
-- I did not expect to see this in you.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with 20 Gulliver's Travelstheir spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should cer-tainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; af-ter which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- My master's design was to show me in all the towns by the way, and to step out of the road for fifty or a hundred miles, to any village, or person of quality's house, where he might expect custom.
-- Or if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger?
-- From thence we went to Tonquin, where the captain resolved to continue some time, because many of the goods he intended to buy were not ready, nor could he expect to be dispatched in several months.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, what's your name!Your father has absconded deserted you and you mustn't expect to see him again as long as you live.'
-- But what I thay, Thquire, ith, that good tempered or bad tempered, I never did a horthe a injury yet, no more than thwearing at him went, and that I don't expect I thall begin otherwithe at my time of life, with a rider.
-- You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do!'
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
-- 'Tom, you are inconsiderate: you expect too much of your sister.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I certainly could not tell him, nor did he expect me to--his conversation being uniformly answered by himself.
-- Besides, as we approach the centre, I expect to find it luminous--" "Nothing is impossible."
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