depression
n. 抑鬱(症); 消沉; 蕭條(期); 窪地; 低氣壓
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...
托馬斯先生患有抑鬱症。
I slid into a depression and became morbidly fascinated with death.
我陷入消沉,開始對死亡有種病態的迷戀。
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.
他永遠不會忘記 20 世紀 30 年代經濟大蕭條時期他所親眼目睹的困苦情形。
A depression in a surface is an area which is lower than the parts surrounding it.
...an area pockmarked by rain-filled depressions.
密佈著雨水窪的地區
A depression is a mass of air that has a low pressure and that often causes rain.
1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
3. a sunken or depressed geological formation
4. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
5. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;
6. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
7. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;
8. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
9. pushing down;
despair, desperation, depression, disappointment
這些名詞都有"絕望,沮喪"之意。
A period of acute depression can sometimes follow childbirth.
分娩之後可能會有一段時間的急性抑鬱期.
She is disposed to sudden bouts of depression.
她動不動就會突然抑鬱症發作.
The depression left his business high and dry.
不景氣使他的生意陷入困境.
This tonic will work miracles for your depression.
這種補藥對治療你的憂鬱症十分有效.
Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.
商業不景氣常使工薪階層受苦.
n. 沮喪,蕭條
slowdownhardslumptimesstagnationstagflationrecessionbadparalysisdullnessdecline
n. 窪地,凹陷
bowlsinkdentpithollowdintrecessconcavityholedimpleindentation
n. 降低,壓低
heavyheartednesscrestfallennessspiritsunhappinessdoldrumssorrowbluesgloommelancholydownheartednessdejectionlowblahsdespairmelancholiasadness
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