expected to do something or to become something 有望的；可能的；預期的；潛在的 a prospective buyer 可能的買主 I had a phone call from a prospective client today. 我今天接到一個有望成爲我們客戶的人打來的電話。
expected to happen soon 即將發生的；行將來臨的
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘looking forward, having foresight’): from obsolete French prospectif, -ive or late Latin prospectivus, from Latin prospectus ‘view’, from prospicere ‘look forward’, from pro- ‘forward’ + specere ‘to look’.