EXPECT

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expect verb tranzitiv

1. a aştepta, a fi în aşteptarea (cu gen.); a anticipa; a se aştepta la, a se bizui pe, a conta pe, a opera, a nădăjdui; a cere, a pretinde;

I expect you to obey mă aştept la ascultare din partea ta;

I expect little from it nu mă aştept la cine ştie ce de aici;

it is to be expected e de aşteptat;

you are expected to be more polite se cade / se cuvine să fii mai politicos;

he is expected to come tonight îl aşteptăm deseară, trebuie să vină deseară;

I expect him to help me mă bizui pe ajutorul lui, sper că mă va ajuta.

2. (fam.) a crede, a socoti, a bănui, a presupune.

Don't expect anything from me when you are married.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Something on this day (or in the future if you choose this day as the “birth” of something new) will not go as expected.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

That little lot will do no good, but I expect their search parties are all over the wood.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had killed this god's dog, bitten his companion god, and what else was to be expected than some terrible punishment?

(White Fang, de Jack London)

While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I have been expecting you to do something original.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I expected him to give orders for the Ghost to heave to, but she kept on her course and he made no sign.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Hayter was a fine old soldier who had seen much of the world, and he soon found, as I had expected, that Holmes and he had much in common.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The collapse had come, as on former occasion, just as I had expected.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And you may expect us early in the afternoon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)