| 释义 |
nay-sayer
[Cf. next.]
A refuser; one who votes against something.
1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 21 A sturdy Beggar should have a stout Naysayer. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 108 Naysayers we know. 1961C. MacInnes England, Half English 47 In this decade we witness the second Children's Crusade, armed with strength and booty, against all ‘squares’, all adult nay-sayers. 1962Times 5 Apr. 7/3 Mephistopheles the eternal nay-sayer. 1970New Statesman 12 June 835/2 Food scientists should try to be ‘nay-sayers against profit curves’. 1972Guardian 28 Nov. 12/6 The Republican Party began the Nixon years as an unrepresentative minority of nay-sayers. 1974Publishers Weekly 5 Aug. 57/3 Further to refute the nay-sayers, he cites poll after poll in which Americans say they are happy despite their feelings that all is not well with the country. |