问
I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. (New Concept English, Book 3, L. 57)
had expected 在这里是什么意思?
答
had expected to do 表示“原以为……”，含有事实并非如此的意思。上句的意思是：我原以为此时我已接近目的地，但是这里的一切我都觉得很陌生。再如：
Sophie had half expected to find her grandfather asleep at this hour and was excited to see the house twinkling with lights. (Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code) 索菲原本猜想祖父可能已经睡下了，当她看到屋里还闪烁着灯光时非常兴奋。（《达·芬奇密码》）更详细的情形，请见 mean 。