Micawber

n. 米考伯（男子名）

发音

US /mɪˈkɒbər/
其它

词形变化

Micawbers 复数 Micawbers Micawbered Micawbering Micawbers 三单 Micawbering 现在分词 Micawbered 过去式 Micawbered 过去分词

别名

micawber Mr. Micawber

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

v.
  1. 1.

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

相关短语

Micawber threshold Micawber principle Micawber principles

词源

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.

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