Nostalgia serves optimists and pessimists alike as an anchor in a world being transformed.

在正在转变的世界，怀旧对于乐和悲来说，就像一个锚。

When things go wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself.

当出了问题之后，悲往往自我责备。

So you prefer to be an optimist rather than pessimist?

因此，您宁愿做一个乐，而不是悲？

Minus 100 points for being a pessimist.

太消极了，扣1000分。

It’s a good thing, Finn. The opposite of an optimist is, of course, a pessimist.

这是一件好事，费恩。乐反过来就是悲了。

Pessimists fret that much of this progress will reverse now that Africa faces economic headwinds.

持悲态度的投资担心非洲经济遇到强劲逆风，大多所取得的进步都会倒退。

That's why it's so difficult for pessimists to change their worldview.

这就是为什么悲很难改变他们的世界。

'I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.

" 我近来成了个对世界非常悲的人。

Research has found that the pessimist doesn't take good care of himself.

研究发现悲不会很好地照顾自己。

Pessimists could argue that the company is overvalued.

悲可能会认为，该公估了。

If you are a pessimist, it will be a building full of heavily surveilled drunkards.

如果你是悲，那它将是一座充满受严密监视的酒鬼的大楼。

But then sometimes a pessimist succeeds beyond his or her expectations.

但有时悲超出了自身的期望取得了成功。

I'm a… I'm a pessimist compared to him.

我其实… … 跟他比是个悲。

You have to say this about Turner, though. He's an equal-opportunity pessimist.

你不得不承认特纳是个信奉机会均等的悲。

It's too late to be a pessimist.

要悲已经太迟。

Boy, for a gunman, you're one hell of a pessimist.

伙计，你可是个枪手，你还是个该死的悲。

There are plenty of pessimists born in the spring and true blue optimists in the winter And of course, your personality is defined by a lot more than just whether there's a lot of light or just a little when you're born.

有在春天出生的悲和在冬天出生的真正的乐，当然，你的个性不仅仅是由你出生时是否有很多光或只有一点光来定的。

As doomsday as this kind of thinking might seem, a number of studies have found that imagining all the worst case scenarios is a defensive pessimist's preferred coping style, and if you take that away, they're worse off.

这种想法看起来像世界末日一样，许多研究发现，想象所有最坏的情况是防御性悲的首选应对方式，如果把它排除，情况会更糟。

So if we take this all together, I guess the question comes down to: Are you guys technology optimists or pessimists?

因此，如果我们把这一切放在一起考量，这个问题可以归结为：你们是科技乐还是悲？

AS A measure of the seriousness of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, the number of Palestinian prisoners released on the eve of talks, say pessimists, is a gloomy barometer.

悲声称，以会谈前夕释放的巴勒斯坦俘虏数目作为对巴以协商认真程度的衡量，前景令人悲。