expect
英 [ɪk'spekt; ek-]
美 [ɪk'spɛkt]
- vt.期待する;期待する;考える;予想する
- vi. 期待する;予想する
語源
予想するex-、外を。-expect(期待する)、look(見る)、語源的にはspectator(見る人)、telescope(望遠鏡)と同じ。
英語の語源
- expect
- expect: [16] Someone who expects something literally ‘looks out’ for it. The word comes from Latin expectāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and spectāre ‘look’ (source of English spectacle, spectre, spectrum, and speculate). Already in Latin the literal ‘look out’ had shifted metaphorically to ‘look forward to, anticipate’ and ‘await’, meanings adopted wholesale by English (‘await’ has since been dropped).
=> espionage, spectacle, speculate, spy - expect (v.)
- 1550s, "wait, defer action," from Latin expectare/exspectare "await, look out for; desire, hope, long for, anticipate; look for with anticipation," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + spectare "to look," frequentative of specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)).
Figurative sense of "anticipate, look forward to" developed in Latin and is attested in English from c. 1600. Also from c. 1600 as "regard as about to happen." Meaning "count upon (to do something), trust or rely on" is from 1630s. Used since 1817 as a euphemism for "be pregnant." In the sense "suppose, reckon, suspect," it is attested from 1640s but was regarded as a New England provincialism. Related: Expected; expecting.
例文
- 1. Don 't expect me to come and visit you there.
- 私がそこに行ってあなたを見ることを期待しないでください。
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- 2. "Will Joe be here at Christmas?"-"I expect so."
- 「クリスマスにジョーはここに来るの?」――「できると思います。」
- 3.How can you expect me to believe your promises?
- どうして私があなたの約束を信じることを期待できますか?
- 4.I hope he doesn 't expect you to wait up for him.
- 徹夜で待つことを期待していないことを願っています。
- 5.Organiser expect up to 30000 protesters to join the march.
- 主催者らは、30万人以上の抗議者が参加する予定だ。
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