as a type of a childishly impractical man living in optimistic fantasy, from the character of Wilkins Micawber in Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1850).
"I am at present, my dear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission. It is not an avocation of a remunerative description -- in other words it does not pay -- and some temporary embarrassments of a pecuniary nature have been the consequence. I am however delighted to add that I have now an immediate prospect of something turning up ...."
双语例句
1. His father was, like Mr. Micawber, always waiting for something to turn up.
他父亲像密考伯先生一样老是盼着交好运.
来自辞典例句
2. Dickens'father was immortalized for ever as Mr Micawber in'David Copperfield '.
