• n. 悲觀，悲觀情緒；厭世主義

來自拉丁語pessimus,最底部的，最壞的，來自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,biped.-im,最高級后詞，詞源同maximum,optimism.-ism,主義，思想。由腳引申詞義底部，底下，后引申詞義悲觀，悲觀主義。

pessimism

pessimism: [18] The first English writer on record as using pessimism was the poet Coleridge, in the 1790s. But he employed it for the ‘worst possible state’. The modern sense ‘expecting the worst’ did not emerge until the early 19th century. The word was probably coined first in French, and was based on Latin pessimus ‘worst’.

pessimism (n.)

1794 "worst condition possible," borrowed (by Coleridge) from French pessimisme, formed (on model of French optimisme) from Latin pessimus "worst," originally "bottom-most," from PIE *ped-samo-, superlative of root *pes- "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). As a name given to the doctrines of Schopenhauer, Hartmann, etc., that this is the worst possible world, or that everything tends toward evil, it is first recorded 1835, from German pessimismus (Schopenhauer, 1819). The attempt to make a verb of it as pessimize (1862) did not succeed.

1. Optimism was gradually taking the place of pessimism.

樂觀情緒逐漸取代了悲觀主義。

來自柯林斯例句

2. There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects.

公司中有一種對工作前景悲觀的情緒。

來自《權威詞典》

3. There were good grounds for pessimism about future progress.

對將來的發(fā)展持悲觀態(tài)度是有充分依據(jù)的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. There was a note of pessimism in what he said.

他的講話帶著悲觀的調子.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. He displayed his usual pessimism.

他流露出慣有的悲觀.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》