Expectant
[ɪk'spekt(ə)nt;ek-] or [ɪk'spɛktənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Waiting in expectation; looking for
(a.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.
(n.) One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.
校對:托妮
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Waiting.
錄入:文斯
例句/造句/用法:
- His face was eager and expectant--it expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety to hear her next words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Rosedale still stood before her in an expectant attitude, and she continued to face him in silence, her glance just level with his polished baldness. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman--almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They were little birds, which, lighting on the sward at shy distance, hopped as if expectant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This ceremony over, seats were resumed, and we sat in dead silence, expectant of a speech. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Caroline sat expectant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But Holmes was shaking his head, and his face was puzzled and expectant rather than joyous. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He sat in his chair--still, but not at rest: expectant evidently; the lines of now habitual sadness marking his strong features. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They rose expectant: eye and ear waited while the flesh quivered on my bones. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, Something sinister is coming! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We were all needlessly hurried, all nervously expectant of the morrow. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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