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单词 look on the etc side
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to look on the dark (or black, gloomy, etc.) side
(ii) to look on the dark (or black, gloomy, etc.) side: to be pessimistic or miserable.
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1790 C. Moore Full Inq. Suicide I. ii. iv. 59 Why should he look on the dark side only, and yield to every gloomy and melancholic impression?
1832 Missionary Herald (Boston) Sept. 308/1 Having rather a propensity to look on the dark side.
1856 Peterson's Mag. Oct. 248/1 A cold stormy night... And one to make a man fear evil things—have strange fancies, and look on the gloomy side.
1915 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June iv. 5/2 You must not look on the black side like that.
1973 Financial Times 17 Nov. 17/8 Still, that's looking on the bleak side.
2010 C. Young Help Yourself towards Mental Health 150 You constantly look on the dark side.
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to look on the bright (also positive, etc.) side
(iii) to look on the bright (also positive, etc.) side: to be optimistic or cheerful, esp. in the face of difficulties. Frequently in imperative.
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1793 S. Hopkins Syst. of Doctr. II. ii. iv. 152 The other..looks more on the favourable side, and makes the best of what he sees in himself.
1821 Relig. Intelligencer (New-Haven, Conn.) 25 Aug. 206/2 One looks on the bright side and is captivated.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxiv. 82 Well, of course, if you can look on the bright side, pray do.
1919 Mind & Body Mar. 45 Let us look on the positive side.
1942 ‘P. Wentworth’ Pursuit of Parcel xi. 51 Well, ducks, I shouldn't take on. Look on the bright side.
2008 B. A. Smith Path of Reason vii. 196 It is the desire for happiness that often causes people to say that we should look on the bright side.
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