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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was delighted; for myself, moody and dissatisfied, I appeared almost to expect a glimpse of the ghost of Hamlet.
-- He was one of those who never seemed to expect anything from anybody, who liked to work when he thought proper, and whose philosophy nothing could astonish or trouble.
-- What, then, must we expect when we come to the upheaved regions--to the districts broken and roughened from volcanic eruptions and subterraneous commotions?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And should you expect me to tell you?'
-- Perhaps the man really only meant what he said; that he thought she would expect him to keep away.
-- 'I expect she'll have to be pushed,' said Clifford at last, with an affectation of SANG FROID.
-- You'll have to expect it.
-- The human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-men seem actually nonexistent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He nodded, as she seemed to expect an answer in the affirmative.
-- 'Very good!only don't expect me to stand between your mother and you, Arthur.
-- 'I expect a few necessary articles of furniture to be delivered by the carrier, this afternoon.'
-- Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head.
-- What can you expect from a poor foreigner who don't know nothing about 'em!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I agree not to expect any-thing from Mother or you, but I do want to buy UNDINE AND SINTRAM for myself.
-- Don't expect anything from me when you are married.
-- And here let me premise that if any of the elders think there is too much 'lovering' in the story, as I fear they may (I'm not afraid the young folks will make that objection), I can only say with Mrs. March, 'What can you expect when I have four gay girls in the house, and a dashing young neighbor over the way?'
-- 'I shall come every day, Father, and expect to keep my old place in all your hearts, though I am married.
-- In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don't expect me to describe it, that's impossible, so I'll only say it was sub-lime!This evening we are going to see Fechter, which will be an appropriate end to the happiest day of my life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are absent four years with four barrels; no wonder that to many ship owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!
-- "Where do you expect to go to, cook?"
-- "So, then, you expect to go up into our main-top, do you, cook, when you are dead?
-- But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!you really expect him to come back, do you?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not expect such a compliment.'
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