Other people are optimists: they always look on the bright side.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

There's one, it's a book by Dimson, Marsh, & Staunton that--called Triumph of the Optimists-- that Jeremy Siegel quotes.

蒂姆森,马什和斯汤顿联合撰写的书,叫做《投资收益百年史》,杰里米·西格尔从中摘引了部分数据

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You might say that optimists are people who think that for everybody in every case, in every circumstance, the total is always positive.

乐观主义者认为,任何人在任何情况下，在任何环境里，等式结果永远是正数。

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Optimists might say that every cloud has a silver lining.

VOA: special.2011.04.00

Optimistic people, and again, not Pollyannaish detached optimism, but grounded optimists, on average, live significantly longer.

乐观的人，不是指盲目的乐天派，而是脚踏实地的乐观主义者，平均而言，明显更加长寿。

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Other people are both pessimists and optimists.

VOA: special.2011.04.00

And in between the optimists on the one hand and the pessimists on the other, you've got moderates who say, " "It varies.

而在乐观主义者,与悲观主义者之间，还有折中主义者认为，“这要看情况。

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John Silvia is the senior economist at Wells Fargo Bank: "Private payroll gains continue to be modest and I would say it does raise flags for those super optimists who were looking for a V-shaped recovery and thinking that we are going to go back to normal very quickly in the US.economy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

we now have a return of the division between moderates, optimists and pessimists.

现在我们有了温和主义者，乐观主义者和悲观主义者之分。

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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That's what the optimists might say.

那是乐观主义者的说法。

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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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