anticipation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ænˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/    美 /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/|[ɛənˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən]|/ænˌtɪs.ə.pæɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. countable,uncountable
    — Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
  2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. countable,uncountable
    — He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
  3. Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest. countable,uncountable
  4. Prolepsis. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
  5. A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord. countable,uncountable
  6. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — [M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; [...]

词形变化

anticipations plural

词汇关系

近义词
expectingness
衍生词
anticipationism anticippointment teleoanticipation unanticipation
相关词
anticipate anticipator anticipatory

词源

From Middle English anticipacioun, from Middle French anticipation and its etymon Latin anticipātiō, anticipātiōnem.
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