Word · Frequency #19848
Fully loadedpessimist
悲观者；悲观主义者；厌世者
a person who expects the worst
- 1.
Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
习惯性地预期最坏结果的人；凡事看阴暗面的人。
习惯性地预期最坏结果的人；凡事看阴暗面的人。；悲观者；厌世者；悲观主义者
In use
Don't be such a pessimist; the weather might clear up by noon.
My uncle is a pessimist who always thinks the plane will be delayed.
Pessimists often focus on problems instead of solutions.
be a pessimist about sth
about 后接引起悲观的事物或话题。
Don't be a pessimist about your future.
不要对自己的未来悲观。
turn sb into a pessimist
强调经历使人变得悲观，可用 turn 或 make。
Her repeated failures turned her into a pessimist.
她屡屡失败，成了一个悲观主义者。
act like a pessimist
act like 为“表现得像”，后接名词。
Connections
Collocations
- a born pessimist
- 天生的悲观主义者
- He is a born pessimist and always expects the worst.他是个天生的悲观主义者，总是做最坏的打算。
- a pessimist by nature
- 生性悲观的人
- My father is a pessimist by nature and worries about everything.我父亲生性悲观，凡事都担心。
- a pessimist about the future
- 对前途悲观的人
- She remains a pessimist about the future despite the recent improvements.尽管近来有所改善，她仍然对未来持悲观态度。
- an incurable pessimist
- 不可救药的悲观主义者
- Even after the team's victory, he stayed an incurable pessimist.即使球队获胜之后，他仍然是一个不可救药的悲观主义者。
Idioms & figurative uses
- a pessimist sees the glass as half empty
- 悲观者眼中的杯子是半空的（指凡事只看消极的一面）
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 ‘pessimist’ 中的 ‘pessi-’ 像‘怕死’，悲观者总把结果往最坏处想，怕这怕那。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常交谈、观点讨论、心理或性格描述 “pessimist”是中性偏常见的说法，通常用来指习惯预期最坏结果的人，既可用于日常对话，也见于心理或性格相关的讨论中。正式书面语里同样适用，但语气上并不特别强硬或带有学术色彩。
Pronunciation & Spelling
All these words end in -ist and share the final /ɪst/ sound. Pessimist, optimist, scientist, and journalist all have three syllables with first-syllable stress; artist, dentist, and tourist have two syllables, also with first-syllable stress. Note that tourist has /ʊr/ and journalist has /ɜːr/ before /ɪst/, so their vowel sounds differ from pessimist's /e/. Also, lookalikes like pessimism (not -ist) are pronounced /ˈpesɪmɪzəm/, not with /ɪst/.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.