Depression
[dɪ'preʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ'prɛʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) pushing down; 'depression of the space bar on the typewriter'.
(noun.) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
(noun.) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
(noun.) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; 'he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud'.
(noun.) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.
(noun.) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.
(noun.) a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment.
胡安編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of depressing.
(n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.
(n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
(n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
(n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.
(n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
(n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
(n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
(n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
編輯:帕特里克
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Abasement, degradation, deterioration, debasement, perversion, vitiation, depravation.[2]. Hollow, hollowness, cavity, indentation, dent, dint, dimple, excavation, pit.[3]. Dejection, dejectedness, sadness, despondency, melancholy, dumps, blues, lowness of spirits, low spirits, depression of spirits.[4]. Lowness, dulness, inactivity.[5]. (Surg.) Couching.
編輯:普鲁登斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley,dip
ANT:Raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration,encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence
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例句/造句/用法:
- A salutary moral depression would be the effect. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She is depressed, but this confinement perhaps adds to her depression. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Thus the digging they did counted in making a depression to stand in, and increased the elevation in front of them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The guide said the Saviour fell here, also, and made this depression with his elbow. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Otz Valley lies in a mighty depression at the south pole. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- This troubled state yielded by degrees, to sullen animosity, and depression of spirits. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- All about her seemed elastic; depression, fear, forlornness, were withdrawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Moreover, the respite allowed by a narcotic is exceedingly brief, and a depression which is long and deep inevitably follows. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The rammer being attached to the gun’s cradle or slide, moves with the gun in elevation and depression. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The excitement of the campaign counteracted in George's mind the depression occasioned by the disinheriting letter. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But his godson was much too elated to mark the worthy stockbroker's depression, or the dreary eyes which the kind old gentleman cast upon him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Weakness has wrought terrible depression in me--terrible depression. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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