expectとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

発音

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛkt/, /ɛkˈspɛkt/
ハイフネーション: ex‧pect
韻: -ɛkt

動詞

expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)

(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen

Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for, bargain for

when you least expect it

I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.

The hostage is expected to be released later today.

I expect it'll rain this weekend, but I hope it won't.

I did not expect you'd come before I asked you to, but do expect you to apologize for it.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  
  “ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎:
  
  And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
To consider obligatory or required.

Synonyms: call for, demand
- 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar:
  
  England expects that every man will do his duty.
- 2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49:
  
  I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.
To consider reasonably due.

Synonyms: hope, want, wish

My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

We are expecting our third in June.
- 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller:
  
  “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
(obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.

Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  
  Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
  
  The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
(obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

Synonym: wait
- 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
  
  I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call

使用する際の注意点

This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Conjugation

Conjugation of *expect*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) expect

1st-person singular	expect	expected
2nd-person singular	expect, expectest	expected, expectedst
3rd-person singular	expects, expecteth	expected
plural	expect	expected

subjunctive	expect	expected

imperative	expect	—

participles	expecting	expected

Archaic or obsolete.

派生語

アナグラム

except

印欧語根
eghs	外に、外への意味を表す印欧語根。接頭辞 ex-（effort, except, expectなど）の由来として「…の外へ」「…から離れて」の意。接頭辞 extra-（extraditeなど）の由来として「外側に」の意。他の重要な派生語は、alert, exotic, sample, strangeなど。
spek-	見ること、観察することを表す印欧語根。重要な派生語は、語幹 spectを持つ語（aspect, respect, spectacleなど）、special, telescopeなど。


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be expécted to dó…	be (ónly) to be expécted
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