dismal science

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Economics or the field of political economy. derogatory,humorous,idiomatic,sometimes,usually
    — [N]ot a "gay science," but a rueful—which finds the secret of this universe in "supply and demand" . . . a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

词形变化

dismal sciences plural

词源

Coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1849, a play on gay science (“poetry”).
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