- 1未預料到的、始料未及的。比 unexpected 更書面，台灣報告裡常見「非預期的」（如「非預期的支出」）
An unanticipated event or result is one nobody expected — nobody saw it coming and nobody planned for it.
It is close in meaning to unexpected, but not quite the same in feeling. Unexpected is the ordinary word and can be about anything, good or bad, big or small. Unanticipated is more formal and leans towards situations where somebody was supposed to be looking ahead — a plan, a budget, a study, a risk assessment. So we say 'unanticipated costs', 'unanticipated consequences', 'unanticipated delays'. There is often a faint sense of 'we should have thought of that'.
Because of that, you meet it most in reports, business writing and research. In everyday speech people just say 'I didn't expect that'.
You will also meet the very common phrase 'unintended consequences', which is a cousin: unintended means we did not WANT it; unanticipated means we did not FORESEE it. Something can be both, and often is.
The word is neutral by itself, but in real use it drifts towards bad news, because when a surprise is good, English speakers usually reach for 'unexpected' or 'a pleasant surprise' instead.
組成un-（沒有）+ anticipate（預期、事先料到）+ -ed。anticipate 來自拉丁文 ante（之前）+ capiō（拿、抓）——字面上是「事先拿走」，先一步把事情抓在手裡。
同家族的字
- anticipatethe verb inside it
- anticipationthe noun — the feeling of expecting something
- capturefrom the same Latin capere 'to take, seize' as the -cip- inside
- receivealso from capere, with re- 'back'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unanticipatedadj
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Not anticipated.
- Last February, Elon Musk boasted of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” as President Trump kicked off his second term with an unanticipated assault on the agency.
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