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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I desire never to use violence, I expect from you, more than all the others, a passive obedience.
-- Their circumspection proved to me that these birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that, if the island was not inhabited, at least human beings occasionally frequented it.
-- "A little more," said Conseil, "and they would be perfect lamps!After that, we cannot expect Nature to have previously furnished them with wicks!"
-- "We know now," said Ned, "that we can expect nothing from this man.
-- I did not expect to find the electric cable in its primitive state, such as it was on leaving the manufactory.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can't expect me to know them, just because they happen to be there.
-- "You don't expect me to take you seriously, do you?"
-- "Yes, Gerald, you're one of the very few people I do expect that of."
-- "I expect so," she said.
-- I always expect her to sheer off to Damascus or San Francisco; she's a bird of paradise.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also: unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you can expect of a poor man's daughter.
-- 'As it ra ins, I hardly expect them; but they may come, and if they do, you run the risk of being scolded for no good.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.
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