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depress

/dɪˈpɹɛs/ 动词 C1

中文: 使沮丧、按下、使萧条

  1. To press down. · Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
  2. To make depressed, sad or bored. · Winter depresses me.
  3. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. · Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
  4. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
  5. To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

He/she/it depresses · 过去式 depressed · 过去分词 depressed · -ing形式 depressing

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动词形式

原形
depress
He/she/it
depresses
过去式
depressed
过去分词
depressed
-ing形式
depressing

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But I feel so depressed that perhaps it will come easy to me now.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第127页 · C1
It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had been thus self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that Jane’s disappointment had, in fact, been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第243页 · B2
When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham’s character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had seldom been depressed before were now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第248页 · B2
And yet for all his watchfulness he was never depressed.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第119页 · B2

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