All sides are expressing cautious optimism that after more than a year and a-half, the peace process may start moving again.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

A lot has happened since the exuberant optimism of the political spirit that we see in a tract like Areopagitica.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中发表了极为乐观的政治思想之后,政治形势发生了很大变化。

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The speech is more than just a pious bit of optimism like a lot of the speeches, in fact, that the other brother has given us.

不同于戏中弟弟的很多演说,哥哥的这段话不是虔诚于贞操而盲目乐观。

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Last year,President Barack Obama backed Bernanke for a second term, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs expressed optimism his tenure will be extended.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

I think there's a bias towards optimism among business economists or among business people in general.

我想大部分人都对乐观的,商业经济学家或者商人有偏见。

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Rajesh Jain, a stock market analyst in Mumbai, says there is widespread optimism that India's economy, which is largely driven by domestic demand, will return to high growth rates faster than other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Hawthorne wrote a short story you should read sometime, as a balance to all of this optimism of this period, irresistible as that optimism was.

霍桑写了篇短文,有机会你应当读读看,他给那个狂热乐观主义时代打了一针清醒剂,因为那是种不容抗拒的乐观

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There is unfortunately a lot of misunderstanding about optimism.

可惜，人们对乐观主义有很多误解。

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.. You might say, optimists are those-- now in this more chastened version of optimism, optimists say, "Even if immortality would be bad eventually after a million years or ten million years or what have you, " the next chunk of life would've been good for all of us."

可以说，乐观主义者是那些-,对于比较保守的乐观主义者，他们会说，“就算一百万年或一千万年之后“,”永生最终是件坏事，但是“,'现在往后的一大段生活对所有人都是美好的“

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We had an extraordinarily high price-to-earnings ratio representing a lot of optimism in the '20s for the stock market and then it corrected and went abruptly downward-- that was The Great Depression.

在二十年代,市盈率高得离奇,表现了当时人们对股票市场的乐观,当其得到修正并突然下跌时,大萧条便开始了

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How do we enhance the belief in ourselves if there's such high correlation and there's a very high correlation and predictive power to a sense of hope, to a sense of optimism, to beliefs.

如何加强我们的信念,如果真有这么紧密的关联,如果希望,乐观主义和信念真的，有着非常紧密的关联和预测力。

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