英:[ˈpesɪmɪst]
美:[ˈpesɪmɪst]
英:[ˈpesɪmɪst]
美:[ˈpesɪmɪst]
pes·si·mist
pe s mihst
复数:pessimists
词根:pessimist
adj.pessimistic 悲观的,厌世的;悲观主义的
adv.pessimistically 悲观地
n.pessimism 悲观,悲观情绪;厌世主义
noun
a person who is inclined to expect poor outcomes : someone who is given to pessimism For pessimists, the heavens offer a host of doomsday scenarios—an asteroid crashing into Earth or deadly cosmic rays raining down on the planet.—R. Cowen
… such was the success of the first venture that many must now be optimistic where most were pessimists at the beginning of the year and for several years before.—Francis Byrne
1820年,“习惯性地预料最坏的人,夸大生活中的罪恶,倾向于忧郁或消沉的观点”(诺尔斯的词典,1835年,将其定义为“普遍的抱怨者”),源自19世纪的法语 pessimiste(见 pessimism)。同时也指“接受悲观主义形而上学说的人”(很难区分这两种意义)。
pessim(ism) + -ist >entry 1, after French pessimiste
The first known use of pessimist was in 1789
1 An optimist laughs to forget a pessimist forgets to laugh.
乐观主义者笑着忘记,悲观主义者却忘记了笑.
2 “She was just perfect from the beginning and she was never not perfect. I’m a pessimist. I was waiting for something to come up but it never did.”
3 He explicitly ventures into the conflict between optimists like Steven Pinker and pessimists like the British philosopher John Gray.
4 Managers use The Keeper Test to figure out which employees are merely average and to weed out complainers and pessimists.
5 So what is the material difference between the optimists and the pessimists?
那么,乐观主义者与悲观主义者的本质区别是什么?
6 It is, admittedly, a grudging comfort, a pessimist's optimism that's available only to a retrospective view, but it's the best we're going to get in the face of mortality.
7 There is always something for naysayers and pessimists to point at to make the case that all is not well.
8 No one will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist.
没有人会理会一个忧郁的悲观者.
9 I'm a pessimist in the sense that we are approaching dangerous times.
10 The pessimist feels like fate's plaything and moves slowly.
悲观者则感到自己只能由命运摆布,行动拖拉.
11 Investor diversity and heterogeneity is predicated on the notion that market needs both optimists and pessimists.
投资者多元化则意味着市场既需要乐观者也需要悲观者.
12 I'm a natural pessimist; I usually expect the worst.
我是个天生的悲观主义者,我总是往最坏的方面想。
13 Nietzsche wondered how much of a pessimist Schopenhauer could really be given that he played the flute.
14 A moral pessimist, von Wright questioned whether the material and technological advances of modern society could really be considered “progress” at all.
15 Pessimist: you refuse the parachute because you might die on the jump anyway.
悲观的 ︰ 拒绝使用这个降落伞,因为跳下去也可能摔死.
16 To a profound pessimist life , being in danger is not depressing.
留意这个人,他肯定不是个好东西.
17 Being seventeen and bored in a small town, I like to pretend sometimes that I’m a pessimist.
18 In the bullish climate surrounding the Indian economy, even the pessimists are optimistic.
19 I'm a natural pessimist; I usually expect the worst.
我是天生的悲观主义者。我总是做最坏的打算。
20 True Jesuits are never pessimists, and I like them for that.