1. 名詞
   expectant複數: 預期者, 期待者
   候選人
   

   同義字詞
   applicant,applier,aspirant,campaigner,candidate,contender,hopeful,prospect,seeker
   

例句

1. It is these worldly expectants , who become the patrons of the mischievous race of the pseudo-teachers of religion, the Putanas, whose congenial function is to stifle the theistic disposition at the very moment of its suspected appearance.
2. He calls us "newborn babes" (1 Pet 2:2), "new creatures" (Gal 6:15), a "new lump" (1 Cor 5:9), a "new man" (Eph 2:15), doers of a "anew commandment" (1 John 2:8), heirs of "a new name" and a new city (Rev 2:17; 3:12), expectants of "new heavens and a new earth" (2 Pet 3:13).
3. But a great mistake was made from the first, in the mode of organising the undertaking; there was a Provisional Committee, consisting chiefly of the promoters and expectants of office under the Company, and these not only decided upon the form of cable, but they entered into and completed the conditions of the contracts for making it.