名词

1. 预期;预料;期望;期盼
Anticipation is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen.

2. 期待着；预计到
If something is done in anticipation of an event, it is done because people believe that event is going to happen.

1. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

Synonym: predictionprevision

2. something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

e.g. each of them had their own anticipations
an indicator of expectancy in development

Synonym: expectancy

3. an expectation

Synonym: expectancy

4. anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

Synonym: expectation