It's easy to sell insurance to a pessimist.

向悲观的人推销保险很容易。

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To an optimist, anything's possible, but to a pessimist, nothing seems possible.

对乐观的人而言，任何事都有可能，但对悲观的人而言，啥事似乎皆不可能。

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You don't have to be a pessimist to realize that we're in trouble.

不是悲观论者也能意识到我们有了麻烦。

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Chaka said in our situation, it's a luxury to be a pessimist.

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The prime minister said this morning he was an optimist not a pessimist when it came to getting meaty reforms from his EU partners.

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Twin boys, one a pessimist and one an optimist, were sent to a psychiatrist because their parents were disturbed by their personality extremes.

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