Right now I'm still an optimist - I'm 70-30 in favor of the more favorable outcome.

现在我依然乐观，我认为有7成的可能出现有利的结果。

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That means, whether you are a pessimist or an optimist, learning to cope with anxiety constructively may be more important – or at last more helpful – than simply trying to look on the bright side.

也就是说，不管你是悲观主义或乐观主义者，学习建设性地处理焦虑可能比只努力看光明的一面更重要，或者至少比较有帮助。

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When you are an optimist, you're more concerned with problem-solving than with useless carping about issues.

如果你是一个乐观者，会更关心问题的解决而不是毫无价值地怨天尤人。

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"Even an optimist like Frank Drake estimates that there would be no more than about in the galaxy, which means that the nearest one is likely to be about 1,000 light years away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Therefore, you might suppose that to be a professional tech investor--one who bets huge in up markets and coolly bails out at the start of down markets--well, such a superman must be more than an optimist and futurist.

FORBES: Tech Stocks at a Crossroads

You have to be something of an optimist to believe that governments which can tax more easily will also tax more lightly.

ECONOMIST: Mario Monti, Europe��s taxman-in-chief

He is an optimist and believes that "Kenyans will emerge from these elections more united".

BBC: Jane Waruguru