expect: [16] Someone who expects something literally ‘looks out’ for it. The word comes from Latin expectāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and spectāre ‘look’ (source of English spectacle, spectre, spectrum, and speculate). Already in Latin the literal ‘look out’ had shifted metaphorically to ‘look forward to, anticipate’ and ‘await’, meanings adopted wholesale by English (‘await’ has since been dropped). => espionage, spectacle, speculate, spy
expect (v.)
1550s, "wait, defer action," from Latin expectare/exspectare "await, look out for; desire, hope, long for, anticipate; look for with anticipation," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + spectare "to look," frequentative of specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)).
Figurative sense of "anticipate, look forward to" developed in Latin and is attested in English from c. 1600. Also from c. 1600 as "regard as about to happen." Meaning "count upon (to do something), trust or rely on" is from 1630s. Used since 1817 as a euphemism for "be pregnant." In the sense "suppose, reckon, suspect," it is attested from 1640s but was regarded as a New England provincialism. Related: Expected; expecting.
双语例句
1. Don't expect me to come and visit you there.
别指望我会去那儿看你。
来自柯林斯例句
2. "Will Joe be here at Christmas?" — "I expect so."
“圣诞节时乔会来这里吗？”——“我想会的。”
来自柯林斯例句
3. How can you expect me to believe your promises?
你怎能指望我相信你的承诺？
来自柯林斯例句
4. I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him.
我希望他没指望你熬夜等他。
来自柯林斯例句
5. Organisers expect up to 300,000 protesters to join the march.