1820, "one who habitually expects the worst" (Knowles' dictionary, 1835, defines it as "A universal complainer"), from 19c. French pessimiste (see pessimism).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. I'm a natural pessimist; I usually expect the worst.
我是天生的悲觀主義者。我總是做最壞的打算。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. You don't have to be a pessimist to realize that we're in trouble.
不是悲觀論者也能意識(shí)到我們有了麻煩。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. The man who is a pessimist before forty - eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after forty - eight knows too little.