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A Pollyanna is someone who stays cheerful and expects good things, even when the situation looks bad. The word comes from a 1913 children’s book, Pollyanna, whose girl-heroine plays a “glad game”: she tries to find something to be glad about in everything. Used kindly, it means a sunny, hopeful person. Used with a little sting — and that is how adults often use it — it means someone who is too sunny, who will not look at the hard truth. You can say “Don’t be such a Pollyanna.” It is a name turned into a type of person. The feeling sits a step beyond simply “happy”: a happy person may still see the problem; a Pollyanna keeps smiling as if the problem were already half gone.
盲目樂觀的人
組成From Polly + Anna. As a type of person, from the girl in Eleanor Porter’s 1913 novel Pollyanna.
同家族的字
- Pollythe first half of the given name
原始詞典資料4 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。
Pollyannaname詞源 1/ˌpɒliˈænə/
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A female given name from Hebrew derived from Polly and Anna; rare in the real world.
- Pollyanna Pocket was small, with long floppy ears and a tail that coiled upwards in a little ringlet. She was a bouncy, happy young dog, who frolicked all day
Pollyannanoun詞源 2/ˌpɒliˈænə/
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One who is persistently cheerful and optimistic, even when given cause not to be so.
- You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna.
- I never wanna hear / From any cheerful Pollyannas / Who tell you Fate supplies a mate / It's all bananas
Pollyannanoun詞源 3/ˌpɒliˈænə/
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A secret Santa gift exchange.
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。