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EXPECTATION

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expectation substantiv

1. aşteptare, expectativă.

2. speranţă, nădejde, aşteptări; pl. perspective (de vittor); perspective de a moşteni;

in expectation of în aşteptarea (cu gen.), în întâmpinarea (cu gen.);

according to expectation după cum (şi) era de aşteptat;

beyond expectation dincolo de aşteptări, peste aşteptări;

contrary to expectation contrar / în ciuda aşteptărilor;

to live up to expectations a îndreptăţi aşteptările / speranţele.

3. (med.) metoda expectativă / aşteptării, medoda vindecării naturale.

4. probabilitate;

expectation of life longevitate probabilă (cifre statistice).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I have more than half an expectation of our all going abroad.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

This was Fanny's most frequent expectation.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The morning had answered all her hopes, and the evening of the following day was now the object of expectation, the future good.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Turning to her again, he said with keen expectation:—But go on. Go on! there is more to tell if you will. Be not afraid; John and I know.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But that was not enough; for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Young as I was, I could still understand that this was the moment which he had thought of during many a lonely watch, and that the expectation of it had cheered his heart in many a dark hour.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That point is the request made by Pinner that you should not resign your place, but should leave the manager of this important business in the full expectation that a Mr. Hall Pycroft, whom he had never seen, was about to enter the office upon the Monday morning.

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

I had hoped that in some way I could coax my companion back into the quiet which had been the object of our journey; but one glance at his intense face and contracted eyebrows told me how vain was now the expectation.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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