expectation
.ekspek'teiʃәnnoun
A22,343rd most heard wordIn 40 of 2278 videos (2%)heard 71 timeslast on Oct 16, 2026
- n. belief about (or mental picture of) the future
- n. the feeling that something is about to happen
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- 7:46So this was always meant to be a kind of an R-Towes kind of in the film, but it's you know defied all expectations.所以这部电影本来注定是那种小众电影，但你知道，它打破了所有预期。Saoirse Ronan's Best Bits 🥇 | The Graham Norton Show
- 5:49And I've learned not to have expectations.我学会了不要抱有期待。Meeting My Girlfriend’s Parent for the First Time | Truth or Drink | Cut
- 24:23What would your expectations of the food be?你对那里的食物有什么期待？Los Angeles VS London - The Englishsponge Podcast (EP.1) | English Comprehensible Input B1
- 29:02We impose our own mental filter onto that situation, and we think, well, I have some expectations, some presumptions about what it means to be a prisoner or a widow or someone who's unemployed or someone who's chronically ill, and we have a very limited imagination as a result about what that can look like.我们将自己的心理滤镜强加于那种情境，心想，嗯，我对成为囚犯、寡妇、失业者或慢性病患者意味着什么，有一些期望和预设，结果我们的想象力因此变得非常有限。Why You Fear the Unknown — and What It Can Teach You | Maya Shankar and Simone Stolzoff | TED
- 2:30And when it comes to those employment numbers, believe it or not, August payrolls rose by a hundred and sixty-two thousand jobs, which was more than double the expectation.说到就业数据，信不信由你，八月份的非农就业人数增加了16.2万人，是预期的两倍多。BREAKING: The FED Just RAISED Interest Rates - Stocks Falling, Housing Market FROZEN!
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