单词 | Tapleyism |
释义 | Tapleyism|ˈtæplɪɪz(ə)m| [f. the name of Mark Tapley, a character in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4) + -ism.] Optimism in the most hopeless circumstances, as expressed by Tapley's determination always to remain ‘jolly’. Also ˈTapleyan a.
1857B. Smith Let. in W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) ix. 246, I have a good share of Tapleyism in me and come out strong under difficulties. 1900F. W. Maitland Let. 22 Jan. (1965) 209 Your letter..told me more than I had learned from any newspapers about the gloom of England, though I had read something between lines which seemed to me Tapleyan. 1972Scots Observer 12 Mar. 2/2 What impressed me..was the grim way they held on to optimism... If that is Tapleyism..then Tapleyism is a fine thing. |

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