| 单词 | doctor pangloss |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDoctor Pangloss A person resembling Voltaire's character Pangloss, esp. one who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances. Also Doctor Pangloss. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > [noun] > unrealistic > person Pangloss1794 Micawber1852 Panglossian1922 Micawberite1948 1794 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 114 Your remark of the Physical Evil in the long Infancy of men would indeed puzzle a Pangloss. 1798 F. G. Waldron Epil. in T. Holcroft Inquisitor New Panglosses should still, with quotations pat, come here. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. ii. i. 153 The political Panglosses who..were continually proving that this was the best of all possible governments. 1863 Times 22 Oct. 8/1 Had the Emperor named any other persons the Panglosses of the press would have said the same. 1928 J. F. Dashiell Fund. Objective Psychol. xii. 340 Here is one key to the Javerts and the Panglosses, to the Abolitionists and the teetotalers, to slaying prophets and cock-sure Babbitts. 1973 Listener 5 Apr. 438/1 The [Egyptian] regime's official Dr. Pangloss, Culture Minister Dr Abdel Khader Hatem. 1993 Harper's Mag. Sept. 48/1 As factories moved out of the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, the Panglosses of the day called it progress. < as lemmas |
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