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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
HSK 2
really / sure enough / as expected / if indeed
HSK 3
didn't expect
HSK 4
contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you
HSK 5
to expect / to anticipate
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *料* | 料* | *料
material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess
HSK 6
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course / inevitable and right
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *望* | 望* | *望
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
HSK 7-9
logical / only to be expected / rational and clearly structured (of text)
HSK 7-9
to expect; to await
HSK 7-9
to wait for / to expect / to keep watch / to watch over / to nurse
HSK 7-9
to reckon / to calculate / to plan / to expect / to scheme
HSK 7-9
really / as expected / sure enough / if indeed... / if it's really...
HSK 7-9
to anticipate; to expect / expectations
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盼* | 盼* | *盼
to hope for / to long for / to expect
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *意* | 意* | *意
idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate
(desired) effect / (expected) result / effective
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *虞* | 虞* | *虞
(literary) to expect; to anticipate / (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive / (literary) to deceive; to dupe
to anticipate; to expect
who would have thought that / who would have expected that
to hope / to expect / expectation(s)
expected date of childbirth / estimated due date (EDD)
to expect / to look forward to / anxious for sth / to hope (to get sth)
reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
as expected
to expect / to presume / to think (sth is likely)
metrorrhagia (vaginal bleeding outside the expected menstrual period)
to do sth when least expected (idiom); to catch sb off guard
to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to
expecting mother
(idiom) just as expected
travel time / expected time for a car journey
who would have thought that / who would have expected that
to be expecting / to be with child
(of a course of action) within one's area of responsibility; expected of one; obligatory (for a person in that role)
lady's demeanor / norms expected of women (in former times)
to write down (i.e. to decrease the expected value of a loan)
smoothly / as one expects
expecting your reply (epistolary style)
to not anticipate / to not expect / unanticipated / unexpected
(used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
to expect in a short time (idiom) / also pr. [qiao4 zu2 er2 dai4]
to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
expectations / (math) expected value
(slang) the norm; typical behavior; nothing out of the ordinary; just what you'd expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作)
just as expected
to expect anxiously
not expected at the outset (idiom) / unforeseen / to be surprised by the turn of events
to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally
sth that is expected or wished for
to come as no surprise / as expected
(often used in the negative) to anticipate; to expect; to think that sth would happen
according to forecasts / it is expected that...
(jocular) wedding invitation (lit. "red bomb", because wedding invitations use red paper, and invitees are expected to give a substantial sum of money as a wedding gift)
as expected
not expecting any reward / not asking for favors
turned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected
as should be / as expected
lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom) / fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
can be expected (to) / to be expected (to) / hopefully (happening)
can be expected to be a success
to be good enough to be regarded as; to meet the standard expected of
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
hands tied and expecting the worst
hands tied and expecting the worst
lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel
to expect (a currency etc) to depreciate
metrorrhagia (vaginal bleeding outside the expected menstrual period)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谅* | 谅* | *谅
to show understanding / to excuse / to presume / to expect


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