He bought extra food in anticipation of more people coming than he'd invited.

他预料来的客人会比邀请的多，就多买了食物。

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She tensed her muscles in anticipation of the blow.

眼看要挨打，她绷紧了肌肉。

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Investors were storing up a lot of cash in anticipation of disaster.

投资者们预计会发生灾难，正储备大量现金。

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In anticipation, U.S.aircraft maker Boeing is ramping up production of its wide body planes.

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And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

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And we see in the poem itself an anticipation of the struggle that results eventually in the eighteenth century in the new title of the mask.

我们看到，诗本身是一个预期的斗争,在18世纪面具的新标题中最终出现了。

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Others insist that children would hop around the table in anticipation of John's great creation.

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That was temporarily lifted in anticipation of the games and was taken as a sign of openness.

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As a result, gold surged in anticipation that the FOMC might undertake further accommodation after all.

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