anticipation
英 [æntɪsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n]
美[æn,tɪsɪ'peʃən]
- n. 希望；预感；先发制人；预支
英英释意
- 1. pleasurable expectation
- 2. something expected (as on the basis of a norm);
- "each of them had their own anticipations"
- "an indicator of expectancy in development"
- 3. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- 4. some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one;
- "there were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"
- "the hour glass was an anticipation of the clock"
- 5. wishing with confidence of fulfillment