| 正面 | 3209.anticipate 英 [æn'tɪsɪpeɪt]美 [æn'tɪsə'pet]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、anti- "before" + cip- + -ate.2、literally "taking into possession beforehand". => expect, be aware of (something) coming at a future time.vt. 预期，期望；占先，抢先；提前使用 例句： 1. What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question.杰夫预先回答了我的下一个问题。 anticipate 预期前缀ante-, 在前。词根cip, 同cap, 拿，抓，见capture. anticipate (v.)1530s, "to cause to happen sooner," a back-formation from anticipation, or else from Latin anticipatus, past participle of anticipare "take (care of) ahead of time," literally "taking into possession beforehand," from ante "before" (see ante) + capere "to take" (see capable). Later "to be aware of (something) coming at a future time" (1640s). Used in the sense of "expect, look forward to" since 1749, but anticipate has an element of "prepare for, forestall" that should prevent its being used as a synonym for expect. Related: Anticipated; anticipating." |