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/ˌpesəˈmɪstɪk/ · /ˌpesɪˈmɪstɪk/
Expecting that bad things will happen later, or that something will end badly. It can describe a person who thinks this way, or the words, ideas, or reports that show it.
悲觀的
核心畫面
Picture someone looking ahead at something that has not happened yet, and the bad ending is the one that comes to mind first. It can describe the person who thinks this way, or the words and reports that carry that thinking.
一個人往前看的時候，預設看到的是壞的那個結局。同樣一件還沒發生的事——考試、手術、明年的生意——樂觀的人腦中先浮出順…更多收起
一個人往前看的時候，預設看到的是壞的那個結局。同樣一件還沒發生的事——考試、手術、明年的生意——樂觀的人腦中先浮出順利的版本，pessimistic 的人腦中先浮出出事的版本。重點在「往前看」：這個字講的是對還沒發生的事的預期，不是對現在的抱怨。它可以形容一個人（他一向如此），也可以形容從那個人身上流出來的東西——他說的話、他寫的報告、他給的預測。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
pessimisticadj/ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/
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Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
- a pessimistic view of the future
- Some, noting the obvious analogies between Soviet Communism and Nazism, had pessimistic forebodings as to the inevitability of totalitarian systems throughout the world.
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Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
- a pessimistic estimate
- However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTaking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.
- pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。