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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What on earth do you expect me to say to that?"
-- Perhaps he guessed what was in my mind, for he said:"I couldn't expect her to love me as I loved her.
-- I didn't expect her to answer.
-- You will always find him at the following address:Chapter XXXIVBut though I was no less convinced than Stroeve that the connection between Strickland and Blanche would end disastrously, I did not expect the issue to take the tragic form it did.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The castaways could expect nothing but from themselves and from that Providence which never abandons those whose faith is sincere.
-- Neb did not expect to find his master living.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.
-- 'It's equally plain that the money which the old flint rot him first taught me to expect that I should share with her at his death, will all be hers, is it not?'
-- A few confined themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red-letter day or saint's day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the profound village politicians) argued that it was a slight to the throne and an affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half-holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Monarch; but the majority expressed their displeasure on private grounds and in plain terms, arguing that to put the pupils on this short allowance of learning was nothing but an act of downright robbery and fraud: and one old lady, finding that she could not inflame or irritate the peaceable schoolmaster by talking to him, bounced out of his house and talked at him for half-an-hour outside his own window, to another old lady, saying that of course he would deduct this half-holiday from his weekly charge, or of course he would naturally expect to have an opposition started against him; there was no want of idle chaps in that neighbourhood (here the old lady raised her voice), and some chaps who were too idle even to be schoolmasters, might soon find that there were other chaps put over their heads, and so she would have them take care, and look pretty sharp about them.
-- It's natural to expect that you'll see it, and I've no doubt you will.
-- I am obliged to walk, very much against my will; but the people expect it of me, and public characters can't be their own masters and mistresses in such matters as these.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I did not expect to find you here."
-- And, then, are you acting as you do in order to satisfy conscientious scruples, or for the praise you expect of people?"
-- "I did not expect to meet you here," he said, approaching Nekhludoff and smiling with his lips, while his eyes remained sad.
-- We must do everything for the masses, and expect nothing from them.
-- And it is, therefore, perfectly illusive to expect aid from them before they have gone through the process of development--that process of development for which we are preparing them."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?"
-- I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her.
-- I cannot expect you to believe it.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When do you expect to do it?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She'll lie a point nearer the wind than a man has a right to expect of his own married wife, sir.
-- Now, sir, it's got to come to blows sooner or later, and what I propose is to take time by the forelock, as the saying is, and come to blows some fine day when they least expect it.
-- "Dr. Livesey," he said, "in how many weeks do you and squire expect the consort?"
-- "A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, can't expect to appear as sane as you or me.
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