昂立外语【新概念培训】分享expect这个小词。在我们新概念二Lesson 7 Too late课文中有这样一句话:
They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamond from South Africa.
他们正期待从南非来的一个装着钻石的贵重包裹。
这里的expect的意思大家应该很熟悉了,没错就是期待、等待,它的结构也信手拈来:expect sth./ expect sb to do sth.接下来,让我们一起来看看下面新闻报道中出现的expect作何解释。大家对威廉王子和凯特王妃一定不陌生,11年那场英国皇家世纪婚礼历历在目,而在2014年下半年,凯特王妃又怀了二胎,收到了媒体和民众的广泛关注,Reuters路透社这样写道:
William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth and second-in-line to the throne, announced last month that Kate was expecting a second baby to join Prince George who was born in July last year, but no date for the birth was disclosed at the time.
这里的expect如果解释为期待、等待似乎也很说得通,但其实并不精准,因为这样的解释并没有表现出已经怀有身孕这一状态,那究竟该如何理解最好呢?Webster上有这样一条释义:to be pregnant; await the birth of one's child—used in progressive tenses,也就是说,be expecting可以表示怀孕,或者期待(婴儿)出生的意思。在最近还有一个很轰动的新闻,就是中国网球女王李娜怀孕了!那我们是不是就可以把expect的这个用法用起来了呢,Li Na is expecting a baby~
其实expect的这一用法在我们新概念三的课本中也有出现,就是Lesson 45 The power of the press这篇课文,那一大家子已经有了五个孩子,没想到第六胎一生就是一五胞胎,They were expecting their sixth child and were faced with even more pressing economic problems.
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