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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "One might expect to lose that much in such a tumult as this."
-- "But when the barometer rises, on the contrary, which is the case now, all we need expect is a few violent blasts.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother.
-- 'You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
-- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
-- Chapter 13 hope, my dear,' said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were 'I at breakfast the next morning, 'that you have ordered a good dinner to-day, because I have reason to expect an ad- dition to our family party.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'That is another case,' said he; 'it is my call-ing, and therefore my duty; but as you made this voyage on trial, you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect if you persist.
-- Had I used half as much pru-dence to have looked into my own interest, and have made a judgment of what I ought to have done and not to have done, I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance, and gone upon a voyage to sea, attended with all its common hazards, to say nothing of the reasons I had to expect particular misfortunes to myself.
-- It began from the south-east, came about to the north-west, and then set-tled in the north-east; from whence it blew in such a terrible manner, that for twelve days together we could do noth-ing but drive, and, scudding away before it, let it carry us whither fate and the fury of the winds directed; and, during these twelve days, I need not say that I expected every day to be swallowed up; nor, indeed, did any in the ship expect to save their lives.
-- Now, though we thought that the wind did a little abate, yet the ship having thus struck upon the sand, and sticking too fast for us to expect her getting off, we were in a dread-ful condition indeed, and had nothing to do but to think of saving our lives as well as we could.
-- After we had rowed, or rather driven about a league and a half, as we reckoned it, a raging wave, mountain-like, came rolling astern of us, and plainly bade us expect the COUP DE GRACE.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No one, at least, can think I have not done enough for them: even themselves, they can hardly expect more."
-- But yet he is not the kind of young man there is something wanting his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister.
-- But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them.
-- Does Elinor expect him already?"
-- Miss Marianne must not expect to have all the men to herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If Hanson sat every evening in the front room and read his paper, if he went to bed at nine, and Minnie a little later, what would they expect of her?
-- Here, in the morning, Drouet would expect to see her in a new jacket, and that couldn't be.
-- You could hardly expect to get started out here."
-- You cannot expect me to have anything more to do with you.
-- I expect to get it all back shortly, but just at present I am running close."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come.
-- Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us.
-- And then I went on and told her all what I told Uncle Silas before; and then she said she'd forgive us, and maybe it was all right enough anyway, and about what a body might expect of boys, for all boys was a pretty harum-scarum lot as fur as she could see; and so, as long as no harm hadn't come of it, she judged she better put in her time being grateful we was alive and well and she had us still, stead of fretting over what was past and done.
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