Expectations

Definition

expect /Çk'spekt/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (from sb/sth) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ မွန္းသည္။ ထင္သည္။ တြက္သည္။ This is the parcel we've been expecting (from New York). ❍ I expect (that) I'll be back on Sunday. ❍ You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a week. ❍ We expected him (to arrive) yesterday. ❍ House prices are expected to rise sharply. ❍ You would expect there to be some disagreement on this point. (ခ) ~ sth (from sb) ယံုၾကည္ထား သည္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသည္။ ထင္ထားသည္။ I was half expecting a present (from her) and was rather disappointed when I didn't get one. ❍ I'm still learning the job so please don't expect too much (from me). ❍ Don't expect any sympathy from me! ❍ WAIT ၂။ ~ sth (from sb) လိုလားသည္။ An officer expects obedience from his men/expects that his men will obey him/expects his men to obey him. ❍ I expect you to be punctual. ❍ You will be expected to work on Saturdays. ၃။ ( infml esp Brit ) ထင္သည္။ ‘Who has eaten all the cake?’ ‘Tom, I expect/I expect (that) it was Tom. ’ ❍ ‘Will you be late?’ ‘I expect so. ’ ❏ be expecting (a baby/child) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ္ဝန္ ရိွသည္။ I hear Sally's expecting again. ❏ expectancy /Çk'spektǝnsi/ n [U] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားဟန္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနပံု။ There was an air/a sence of expectancy among the waiting crowd. See also LIFE EXPECTANCY ❏ expectant /Çk'spektǝnt/ adj ၁။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေစာင့္စား ေသာ။ children with expectant faces waiting for the pantomime to start. ၂။ ကေလးရေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ expectantly adv ❏ expect sth of sb/sth [ PHRV ] ယံုၾကည္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ထားသည္။ I expected better of him (ie that he would behave better). ❍ People expect courtesy of the police. Compare UNEXPECTED ❏ (be only) to be expected [ IDM ] ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္တယ္။ ျဖစ္တတ္တယ္။ ျဖစ္႐ိုးျဖစ္စဥ္ပဲ။ A little tiredness after taking these drugs is to be expected. ❍ It is only to be expected your sonwill leave home eventually.

Examples

1. We’re expecting good weather at the weekend.
2. The trial is expected soon.
3. [expect (that)] : Investors expect that the rate of inflation will rise.
4. [expect someone/something to do something] : I didn’t really expect you to understand.
5. We were expecting the letter to arrive by now.
6. [when you least expect it] : An accident can happen at any time
7. just when you least expect it.
8. [half expect] : She half expected him to be angry with her.
9. [as expected] : As expected
10. the party was a great success.
11. Don’t expect me to help you.
12. A new hairstyle will improve your appearance
13. but you can’t expect miracles.
14. I’m expecting visitors this evening.
15. Are you expecting a parcel?
16. [expect someone home/back/in] : What time do you expect Sara home?
17. Our customers expect good service.
18. [expect to do something] : I expect to get paid on time.
19. [expect someone/something to do something] : It’s not fair to expect me to do all the housework.
20. [expect something of/from someone] : The level of fitness expected of a professional footballer