expect

　　1. vt. 期待、预料、等待

　　Is this the letter you have been expecting?

　　It’s what we’ve expected.

　　We expect to finish the work by Friday.

　　I expect that they will drop in.

　　I expect you to make more progress.

　　---Will he be back tonight?    ---I expect so.

　　You arrived earlier than we had expected.

　　2.习语

　　as (is/ was/ has been) expected不出所料

　　They came late again, as was expected.

　　expect too much of sb.对某人期待过高