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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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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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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