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：
-- Paganel can hardly expect to meet with wild beasts in this aerial forest."
-- Lord Glenarvan did not expect to glean any information, and only asked by the way of duty.
-- "We may, Madam," replied the geographer; "but I do not expect it.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you may expect us.
-- The baronet has been in communication with the ar-chitect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.
-- But I expect if we could lay our hands upon that lady we should know more about Sir Charles's death.'
-- 'Well done!Our researches have evidently been running on parallel lines, and when we unite our results I expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of the case.'
-- 'Driving back in the evening from Coombe Tracey he was in time to get his hound, to treat it with his infernal paint, and to bring the beast round to the gate at which he had rea-son to expect that he would find the old gentleman waiting.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course they were only Epanchins, but their mother's family was noble; they might expect considerable fortunes; their father had hopes of attaining to very high rank indeed in his country's service-all of which was satis-factory.
-- I had to tell them at last that I intended to be master of my own destiny, and that I expect to be obeyed at home.
-- The general, who was really agitated and disturbed, looked at the prince too, but did not seem to expect much from his reply.
-- 'I really did not expect it at all; in fact, I suppose it was all stuff and nonsense on the general's part, as usual.
-- 'I must say, again, I can't understand how you can expect anyone to tell you stories straight away, so,' said Adelaida.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Juno,' replied the sire of gods and men, 'you must not expect to be informed of all my counsels.
-- If they miss the sound of your voice when they expect it they may be frightened, and refuse to take us out of the fight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When I came into this room," continued the Invisible Man, after presenting the poker to the tip of the nose of each of his visitors, "I did not expect to find it occupied, and I expected to find, in addition to my books of memoranda, an outfit of clothing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no good answering the brute; but I certainly did not expect his next move.
-- But I have confided my case to a strangely able man, a man who had known Moreau, and seemed half to credit my story; a mental specialist, and he has helped me mightily, though I do not expect that the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- 'Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind,' returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; 'and they often aid a man in his good - intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.
-- With an Indian 'tis a matter of conscience; what he calls himself, he gener-ally is not that Chingachgook, which signifies Big Sarpent, is really a snake, big or little; but that he understands the windings and turnings of human natur', and is silent, and strikes his enemies when they least expect him.
-- 'Do I expect a hungry wolf will satisfy his craving with a mouthful!They have lost a man, and 'tis their fashion, when they meet a loss, and fail in the surprise, to fall back; but we shall have them on again, with new expedients to circumvent us, and master our scalps.
-- I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the in-satiable longings of youth after distinction.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor with such a man could you expect the appeal to conscience to be effective.
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