| 词组 | pessimistic |
| 释义 | pessimistic Copperud 1970, 1980 seems to argue that pessimistic should be applied to persons only, and should not be allowed to modify nonhuman or inanimate nouns; for this view he invokes the authority of dictionaries. What dictionaries he has been looking at we are uncertain, but pessimistic in our files is usually applied to nonhuman and inanimate nouns. • ... the most ... relentless expression of the pessimistic view —Louis J. Halle, Jr., Saturday Rev., 12 Apr. 1941 • "... Dr. Baines always takes a pessimistic view of everything " —Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, 1934 • ... a really pessimistic winter for the farmers — Adrian Bell, Silver Ley, 1931 • ... muttering pessimistic prophecies —G. M. Trevelyan, British History in the Nineteenth Century, 1922 • ... wrapped in pessimistic gloom —Paul Elmer More, Selected Shelburne Essays, 1935 • No pessimistic policy about the future of America — Franklin D. Roosevelt, fireside chat, 29 Dec. 1940, in Nothing to Fear, ed. B. D. Zevin, 1946 • ... a series of pessimistic ... intelligence estimates —Peter Schräg, Saturday Rev., 13 Nov. 1971 • ... his own pessimistic evaluation —Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr., New Yorker, 11 Nov. 1972 |
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