Depression

(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.

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• A salutary moral depression would be the effect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• 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. 维莱特.
• She is depressed, but this confinement perhaps adds to her depression. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The guide said the Saviour fell here, also, and made this depression with his elbow. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Otz Valley lies in a mighty depression at the south pole. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• This troubled state yielded by degrees, to sullen animosity, and depression of spirits. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• All about her seemed elastic; depression, fear, forlornness, were withdrawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• 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. 科学通论.
• The rammer being attached to the gun’s cradle or slide, moves with the gun in elevation and depression. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The excitement of the campaign counteracted in George's mind the depression occasioned by the disinheriting letter. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Weakness has wrought terrible depression in me--terrible depression. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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