Pangloss (fr. Pangloss)

Translation into English

Devenez membre de Pangloss pour 2019!
Become a Pangloss member for 2019!
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1
Eh bien, le professeur Pangloss était un pessimiste.
Well, Professor Pangloss, as it happens, was a pessimist.
Example taken from data source: TED2020_v1
Pangloss m'a donc bien cruellement trompée, quand il me disait que tout va le mieux du monde.
Pangloss deceived me most cruelly, in saying that everything is for the best.
Example taken from data source: Books_v1
Pangloss, Candide, et Martin, en retournant à la petite métairie, rencontrèrent un bon vieillard qui prenait le frais à sa porte sous un berceau d'orangers.
Pangloss, Candide, and Martin, as they were returning to the little farm, met with a good-looking old man, who was taking the air at his door, under an alcove formed of the boughs of orange trees.
Example taken from data source: Books_v1
A ce discours, Candide s'évanouit encore; mais revenu à soi, et ayant dit tout ce qu'il devait dire, il s'enquit de la cause et de l'effet, et de la raison suffisante qui avait mis Pangloss dans un si piteux état.
At hearing this, Candide fainted away a second time, but, not withstanding, having come to himself again, he said all that it became him to say; he inquired into the cause and effect, as well as into the sufficing reason that had reduced Pangloss to so miserable a condition.
Example taken from data source: Books_v1
Candide, Martin, et Pangloss, disputaient quelquefois de métaphysique et de morale.
Candide, Martin, and Pangloss disputed sometimes about metaphysics and morality.
Example taken from data source: Books_v1
Dans le camp du Dr Pangloss, ces asymétries étaient décrites comme bégnines - reflétant tout simplement la demande en réserves de dollars de la part des économies émergentes, à laquelle seuls les États-Unis pouvaient répondre, ainsi qu’un appétit insatiable des consommateurs américains vis à vis de l’importation de marchandises à bas prix.
The Dr. Pangloss school dismissed them as benign - a mere reflection of emerging economies’ demand for dollar reserves, which only the US could provide, and American consumers’ insatiable appetite for cheap merchandise imports.
Example taken from data source: News-Commentary_v16

Synonyms

  • illuminé
  • naïf
  • optimiste
  • rêveur