weltschmerz

weltschmerz

1. In his pocket scraps of paper containing prescriptions for Weltschmerz.

他的衣袋里装了一张张纸，都是医治悲观狂的处方。

2. The amount of human tragedy Kissinger saw around him during his formative years accounts for his being a man given to occasional melancholy or perhaps Weltschmerz,and for being a convinced pessimist beneath a certain playfulness and levity.

基辛格早年目睹了周围大量的人间悲剧，这使他时常显得很忧郁，或许可以叫做多愁善感，使他成为彻底的悲观主义者，虽然表面上爱开玩笑，有点放荡不羁。