expectant
expectant 英 [ɪkˈspektənt] 美 [ɪkˈspɛktənt]
adj. 期待的；怀孕的；预期中的 n. 期待者；候选人
名词复数:expectants
- If you're expectant, you're waiting excitedly for something. A throng of expectant fans might wait outside a concert venue, hoping for a glimpse of the band arriving.
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- adj. 期待的；怀孕的；预期中的
- n. 期待者；候选人
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1. And then our server arrived, her face expectant.
然后，我们的侍者到了，她一脸的期待。
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2. Often, an expectant mom who appears to have a quickie labor has actually been having painless contractions for hours, days, even weeks, contractions that have been dilating her cervix gradually.
一般来说，一个怀孕的妈咪能够快速的临盆，一般已经有几个小时，几天甚至一星期的无痛宫缩，子宫颈已经逐渐打开了。
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3. European doctors now routinely use the tests to help expectant parents whose offspring are at risk for rare gender-linked disorders determine whether they need invasive and costly genetic testing.
欧洲的医生们现在通常用这项测试来帮助怀孕父母来确定是否需要损伤性且昂贵的基因测试，他们的后代有患罕见基因紊乱的风险。
- expectant (adj.) late 14c., from Old French expectant or directly from Latin expectantem/exspectantem (nominative expectans/exspectans), present participle of expectare/exspectare "await, desire, hope" (see expect). Meaning "pregnant" is by 1861. Related: Expectantly. As a noun, "one who waits in expectation," from 1620s.
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