Pessimism

['pesɪmɪz(ə)m] or ['pɛsɪmɪzəm]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things.

(noun.) the feeling that things will turn out badly.

手打:路易--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.

(n.) A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.

錄入:普勒斯顿

解釋/意思:

n. the doctrine that on the whole the world is bad rather than good: a temper of mind that looks too much on the dark side of things: a depressing view of life.—v.i. Pess′imise.—n. Pess′imist one who believes that everything is tending to the worst: one who looks too much on the dark side of things—opp. to Optimist.—adjs. Pessimis′tic -al.

錄入:佩内洛普