Expectant

(a.) Waiting in expectation; looking for

(a.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

(n.) One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

校对:托妮

• His face was eager and expectant--it expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety to hear her next words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Rosedale still stood before her in an expectant attitude, and she continued to face him in silence, her glance just level with his polished baldness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman--almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They were little birds, which, lighting on the sward at shy distance, hopped as if expectant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This ceremony over, seats were resumed, and we sat in dead silence, expectant of a speech. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Caroline sat expectant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But Holmes was shaking his head, and his face was puzzled and expectant rather than joyous. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He sat in his chair--still, but not at rest: expectant evidently; the lines of now habitual sadness marking his strong features. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They rose expectant: eye and ear waited while the flesh quivered on my bones. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, Something sinister is coming! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We were all needlessly hurried, all nervously expectant of the morrow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

录入:文斯