現在似乎只在Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy 才找得到解釋:
n.Nihility; nothingness. [R.]
Little Dorrit, CHAPTER 10
Containing the whole Science of Government
Circumlocution Office
思想之背後有一" do-nothingism "(" 不了了之")為Thomas Carlyle 所鑄:Dismiss that hope, your Lordship! Let all real and imaginary Governors of England, at the pass we have arrived at, dismiss forever that fallacious fatal solace to their do-nothingism: of itself, too clearly, the leak will never stop; by human skill and energy it must be stopped, or there is nothing but the sea-bottom for us all!
Ch. 1: The Present Time
[written February 1, 1850.]
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