- 1悲觀的人；悲觀主義者
A pessimist is someone whose first thought is that things will go badly. Before a picnic they see rain; before a test they see a low mark. It names a habit of mind, not one worried hour — if you feel dark only today, people will not call you a pessimist. As a label for a whole person it is a little heavy, so friends more often say you are being negative, or that you always look on the dark side. People also use it lightly: “I’m a pessimist about the trains” just means they do not trust them to be on time. The opposite kind of person is an optimist. Calling someone a pessimist can sound like a complaint, so it is kinder when you talk about a mood than when you pin it on a person.
組成From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist (“a person who…”). A pessimist is, quite literally, a person of the worst.
同家族的字
- pessimismthe idea or habit of expecting the worst
- pessimisticthe adjective: a pessimistic person or view
- pessimisticallythe adverb: thinking or speaking in that way
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。
pessimistnoun/ˈpɛsɪmɪst/
- 1
Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
- I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.
- We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
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