Is it better for people to be realistic or optimistic?

人们是实际点好还是乐观点好呢？

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This technique is often referred to as optimistic concurrency, or optimistic offline locking (described in Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, by Martin Fowler).

此技术通常称为开放式并发(optimistic concurrency)或开放式脱机锁定(optimistic offline locking)(“企业应用程序体系结构的模式”一文中对此进行了描述，这篇文章的作者是Martin Fowler)。

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One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after drinking it.

人喝了之后不会感觉变得更明智、更勇敢或是更乐观了些。

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The study also found that women who were not optimistic were more likely to smoke and have high blood pressure or diabetes.

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That may or may not work -- I'm not optimistic -- but at least it's the same idea. We're changing payoffs.

这似乎无济于事,我对此也并不乐观,但至少我们得承认,它改变了收益

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David Steinberg, a professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University, says he is not very optimistic that Burma's military government will respond positively to the new U.S.policy or release the country's more than two thousand political prisoners.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

There are valid reasons to be either pessimistic or optimistic.

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This mixed opinion makes it difficult to make any prediction for the future, but what is clear is that companies with a positive or optimistic view of the US economy will be more likely to want to drive innovation and change.

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More than a quarter - some 28% - of farmers said they were optimistic or very optimistic about the industry, with expansion planned across most sectors.

BBC: Scottish farmers 'optimistic about future'