anticipate

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it. 預(yù)期
At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning. 當(dāng)時我們不可能預(yù)期到我們活動的結(jié)果。
It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost. 據(jù)預(yù)測相當(dāng)于192個全職的工作將會喪失。
2. V-T If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs. 預(yù)先準備
What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question. 杰夫所做的是預(yù)先準備我的下一個問題。

We've tried to anticipate the most likely problems , but it's impossible to be prepared for every eventuality .
We don't anticipate any snags with the negotiations .
We thought the concert in the park would be popular but we didn't anticipate so many people turning up.
The holiday cost a lot more than we had anticipated.
Police are anticipating trouble at tonight's game .