depresses

英 [dɪˈpresɪz]

美 [dɪˈpresɪz]

v.  使抑郁; 使沮丧; 使消沉; 使失去信心; 使萧条; 使不景气; 降低(价格); 减少(工资)
depress的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使抑郁;使沮丧;使消沉
  If someone or somethingdepressesyou, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
  1. I must admit the state of the country depresses me...
     我必须承认国家的现状让我倍感沮丧。
  2. I know he is too optimistic but I don't want to depress him.
     我知道他太过乐观了，但我不想令他灰心丧气。
• VERB 降低;减少
  If somethingdepressesprices, wages, or figures, it causes them to become less.
  1. The stronger U.S. dollar depressed sales.
     美元走强导致销售额下降。

双语例句

• Something in the economy goes to excess, and the "correction" depresses production, jobs and incomes.
  经济体中某些东西过度了，然而这个“矫正”却降低了生产量，工作以及收入。
• Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy world and escape in them.
  现实真让人沮丧。我想找一个神奇的世界，然后逃离这里。
• The engine is restarted as soon as the driver depresses the clutch pedal to select a gear.
  司机踩下离合器踏板，发动机是立刻重新启动，以选择一个齿轮。
• Wet weather always depresses me.
  我在阴雨天总是心灰意懒。
• There is a vicious cycle of poverty that prevents poor communities being able to pay for treatment, coupled with endemic malaria that depresses economies in the communities most affected.
  这儿存在一个恶性循环即贫困阻止了贫穷地区购买治疗物品的能力，与此相配的是当地的疟疾又最大程度的摧毁了当地的经济。
• The high saving rate depresses the cost of capital, making it cheap to invest in new capacity.
  高储蓄率会压低资本成本，使投资新产能变得廉价。
• When we worry alone we risk losing touch with reality, becoming paralyzed in worry, making bad decisions, and even getting sick, as toxic worry depresses immune function.
  当我们独自担心时，我们可能会与现实失去联系，变得为担心焦头烂额，做出糟糕的决定，甚至生病，让有害的担忧压垮了免疫功能。
• Poverty depresses most people; in the case of my father it was otherwise.
  贫穷使大多数人垂头丧气，至于我父亲，却不一样。
• This grey weather depresses me.
  这种阴沉的天气使我感到没精神。
• It holds down the growth of wages rates and it depresses employment.
  它阻碍了工资率增长，抑制了就业。