Micawber英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A person who is poor but eternally optimistic, believing that "something will turn up", like the fictional character Wilkins Micawber in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.

— As it is I see Destitution and Despair ahead of me, and have begun an epitaph in the Micawber style for my future grave in the precincts of my native County's jail.

动词 v.

To be optimistic that "something will turn up", in the style of Wilkins Micawber.

— To hope that the Administration and Congress will become Anti-National Bank, and thereby expect something, is Micawbering in dread earnest.

词形变化

Micawbers plural Mr. Micawber alternative Micawbers present,singular,third-person Micawbering participle,present Micawbered participle,past Micawbered past Mr. Micawber alternative

词源

词源 1

A name likely coined by Charles Dickens, evidently reminiscent of common Irish, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic surnames starting with Mc-, Mac-, both from Old Irish macc (“son, child”) (see more there). For the second particle, compare names like Aubrey; similar surnames like M(a)cAubrey are attested around Dickens' time and thus Micawber may represent a dialectal variation.

词源 2

A name likely coined by Charles Dickens, evidently reminiscent of common Irish, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic surnames starting with Mc-, Mac-, both from Old Irish macc (“son, child”) (see more there). For the second particle, compare names like Aubrey; similar surnames like M(a)cAubrey are attested around Dickens' time and thus Micawber may represent a dialectal variation.