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depression n.沮丧；萧条 (1) 他患有严重的抑郁症。(2) 他一时想不开，自杀了。(3) 在那萧条时期，很多人都无事可做。(4) 大体说来,我认为我们正走向萧条。 Depression can be a persistent mood (rotten), an economic situation (the worst), or just the geography (low). The Great Depression was when poor policy and economic circumstances combined to create a long period of time everyone struggled to even get food on the table.

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英 [dɪ'preʃn] 美 [dɪ'preʃn] (1) He suffers from acute depression.(2) He committed suicide during a fit of depression.(3) Many people were idle during the depression.(4) Roughly speaking, I think we are heading for the depression. The act of pressing down on something is called making a depression, and when people suffer from psychological depression that is often what it feels like — the world itself is pressing down on them. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]抑郁；沮丧；消沉 Depression is a mental state in which you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant. Mr Thomas was suffering from depression...托马斯先生患有抑郁症。I slid into a depression and became morbidly fascinated with death.我陷入消沉，开始对死亡有种病态的迷恋。2[N-COUNT 可数名词]萧条（期）；不景气 A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty. He never forgot the hardships he witnessed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.他永远不会忘记 20 世纪 30 年代经济大萧条时期他所亲眼目睹的困苦情形。3[N-COUNT 可数名词]凹陷；凹坑；洼地 A depression in a surface is an area which is lower than the parts surrounding it. ...an area pockmarked by rain-filled depressions.密布着雨水洼的地区4[N-COUNT 可数名词]低气压 A depression is a mass of air that has a low pressure and that often causes rain.

英语单词	depression
英美音标	英 [dɪ'preʃn] 美 [dɪ'preʃn]
中文释义	n.沮丧；萧条
英语例句	(1) He suffers from acute depression. (2) He committed suicide during a fit of depression. (3) Many people were idle during the depression. (4) Roughly speaking, I think we are heading for the depression.
中文例句	(1) 他患有严重的抑郁症。 (2) 他一时想不开，自杀了。 (3) 在那萧条时期，很多人都无事可做。 (4) 大体说来,我认为我们正走向萧条。
vocabulary简明	The act of pressing down on something is called making a depression, and when people suffer from psychological depression that is often what it feels like — the world itself is pressing down on them.
vocabulary扩展	Depression can be a persistent mood (rotten), an economic situation (the worst), or just the geography (low). The Great Depression was when poor policy and economic circumstances combined to create a long period of time everyone struggled to even get food on the table.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]抑郁；沮丧；消沉 Depression is a mental state in which you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant. Mr Thomas was suffering from depression... 托马斯先生患有抑郁症。 I slid into a depression and became morbidly fascinated with death. 我陷入消沉，开始对死亡有种病态的迷恋。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]萧条（期）；不景气 A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty. He never forgot the hardships he witnessed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. 他永远不会忘记 20 世纪 30 年代经济大萧条时期他所亲眼目睹的困苦情形。 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]凹陷；凹坑；洼地 A depression in a surface is an area which is lower than the parts surrounding it. ...an area pockmarked by rain-filled depressions. 密布着雨水洼的地区 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]低气压 A depression is a mass of air that has a low pressure and that often causes rain.

Depression Economic N Count 可数名词 People I Pressing Situation