dismal science

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

dismal sciences 复数 dismal sciences

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Economics or the field of political economy.

    贬义 幽默 习语

    Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the ‘dismal science’ of economics.

词源

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

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