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词汇 depression
释义 depression
noun
uk /dɪˈpreʃ.ən/ us /dɪˈpreʃ.ən/

depressionnoun (UNHAPPINESS)


B2[ C or U ]
a mental illness in which a person is very unhappy and anxious (= worried and nervous) for long periods and often feels no interest in anything:
Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are all classic symptoms of depression.乏力、没有食欲和失眠都是抑郁症的典型症状。
suffer from depressionIf you suffer from depression, it's best to get professional help.如果你患有抑郁症,最好向专业人士求助。
See also
clinical depression
B2[ U ]
the state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future: 忧郁,抑郁;消沉,沮丧
I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression.我万念俱灰。
The drug is used to treat depression and anxiety.
Withdrawal is a classic symptom of depression.沉默寡言是抑郁症的一种典型症状。
He went to see his doctor and was diagnosed with depression.
Every day she sinks further and further into depression.她一天天地消沉下去。
Don't let feelings of depression swamp you.不要被沮丧的情绪击垮。
There was a general mood of hopelessness and depression.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mental illnesses
ad
adjustment disorder
age-associated memory impairment
anhedonia
anorectic
exhibitionistic
exhibitionistically
false memory
firebug
generalized anxiety disorder
melancholia
mental handicap
neurotic
postnatal psychosis
postpartum depression
postpartum psychosis
PPD
progressive simultanagnosia
schizophrenic
seasonal affective disorder

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Sadness and regret

depressionnoun (NO ACTIVITY)


C2[ C ]
a period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs: (经济)萧条期,不景气时期
The stock market crash marked the start of a severe depression.股市大跌标志着大萧条的开始。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Economics
accommodative
anti-economic
anti-inflation
anti-inflationary
anti-recession
buyer's market
deindustrialization
economic
economist
Great Recession
gross domestic product
HDI
human development index
Keynesian
monetarism
monetary
recession
reflate
retrench
squeeze

depressionnoun (WEATHER)


[ C ] environment specialized
an area where the air pressure is low: 低气压区
depression overThe deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.今天白天大西洋中部上空的低压将逐渐向东移动。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing bad weather
bleakly
bleakness
broke
dreich
fickle
fickleness
hostile
murk
murky
rough
roughness
sock
sock something/someone in (with sb)
sunless
threatening
treacherously
trough
unflyable
unseasonable
wuthering

depressionnoun (HOLE)


[ C ]
part of a surface that is slightly lower than the rest: 凹陷,浅坑
There was a depression in the sand where he'd been lying.他躺过的沙滩上留下了一个凹坑。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Holes, hollows and dips
anti-crack
aperture
blistered
chink
cranny
cratering
hollow
interstice
ladder
leak
leaky
micropore
microporosity
microporous
piercing
pinprick
shaft
spyhole
thumbhole
void

depression | American Dictionary


depression
noun
us/dɪˈpreʃ·ən/

depressionnoun (CAUSE UNHAPPINESS)


[ U ]
a feeling of sadness, or medical a type of mental illness that causes long periods of unhappiness:
I’m just beginning to get over the depression from losing my job.
medical Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are symptoms of depression.

depressionnoun (PRESS DOWN)


[ C ]
a part in a surface that is slightly lower than the rest:
There was a depression in the sand where he’d been lying.

depressionnoun (REDUCE)


[ C ] world history
a period in which there is very little business activity and little employment:
My parents lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s.

depression | Business English


depression
noun[ C or U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /dɪˈpreʃən/us
a recession (= time of low economic activity, when investments lose value, businesses fail and people lose their jobs) that lasts for a long period of time, usually several years:
plunge/slide into depressionThe Thirties saw the world plunge into depression.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 brought severe economic depression and hardship to Canada.
This was a period of deep depression.
For most of the 20th century, economists focused on understanding and controlling inflation and depressions.
New mines are being developed and old mines reopened, lifting communities across Northern Nevada out of the depression left by the industry's last crash.
Compare
boom
recession
slump
 the Depression(alsothe Great Depression)
the period in the years after 1929 until the middle of the 1930s, or, in some cases, the 1940s, when there was a very low level of economic activity in the US, Europe, and many other countries. Many people lost their jobs and were very poor:
The Federal Home Loan Bank system was created in the 1930s by the federal government to stimulate lending during the Depression.
Compare
Wall Street Crash
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