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anticipate 中文

EN[ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt] [ænˈtɪs.ə.peɪt]
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    Definition of anticipate in English Dictionary

  • 动词 (Verb)SGanticipatesPRanticipatingPT, PPanticipatedPREanti-SUF-ate
    1. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
      1. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. --R. Hall.
      2. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
    2. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
      1. The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.
    3. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
      1. to anticipate the pleasures of a visit
      2. to anticipate the evils of life
      3. Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport
    4. to eagerly wait for (something).
      1. Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas.
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    1. 用于句中
      • The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.
      • He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
      • The episode of the sun-god's island is the Odyssey's equivalent of Chekhov's gun, announced in the poem's earliest lines as the occasion of the companions' downfall and anticipated ever since.
  • 词类阶层 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
    1. 动词
      • 及物动词
    相关连结:
    1. en anticipates
    2. en anticipated
    3. en anticipately
    4. en anticipatest
    5. en anticipateth
    资料来源: 维基词典

    Meaning of anticipate for the defined word.

    在语法上,这个单字"anticipate"是一个动词,更具体地来说,是一个及物动词
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