Depreciation
[dɪ,priːʃɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n;-sɪ'eɪ-] or [dɪ,priʃɪ'eʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a decrease in price or value; 'depreciation of the dollar against the yen'.
(noun.) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use.
格温多林手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
(n.) The falling of value; reduction of worth.
(n.) the state of being depreciated.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Fall in price, diminution of value.[2]. Detraction, disparagement, derogation, censure.
阿伦編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He expected a start, a look of depreciation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- An abstract and indefinite future is in control with all which that connotes in depreciation of present power and opportunity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The writers of comedy satisfied that almost universal craving for the depreciation of those whose apparent excellence offends our self-love. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead--abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The men crowded about Tarzan with many questions, but his only answer was a laughing depreciation of his feat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
阿德莱德手打