depress
depress 英 [dɪˈpres] 美 [dɪˈprɛs]
vt. 压抑；使沮丧；使萧条
进行时:depressing 过去式:depressed 过去分词:depressed 第三人称单数:depresses
- Depress means to lessen the activity or power of something. If you want to depress the spread of poverty, you need to find ways to slow it down, like by bringing education and skill-building resources into the poorest communities.
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- vt. 压抑；使沮丧；使萧条
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1. Expanding the source of raw material should also depress the price of petroleum.
原料来源的扩展同样会对石油价格起到抑制作用。
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2. These effects of deflation depress the economy further, which leads to more deflation, and so on.
这些通货紧缩的效应进一步抑制经济，从而导致更多的紧缩。
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3. Music can also activate your brain’s reward centers and depress activity in the amygdala, reducing fear and other negative emotions.
音乐也能激活你大脑的奖赏中心，并且抑制杏仁核的活动，减轻恐惧和其他负面情绪。
- depress (v.) early 14c., "put down by force," from Old French depresser, from Late Latin depressare, frequentative of Latin deprimere "press down," from de- "down" (see de-) + premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" (from PIE root *per- (4) "to strike"). Meaning "push down physically" is from early 15c.; that of "deject, make gloomy" is from 1620s; economic sense of "lower in value" is from 1878. Related: Depressed; depressing.
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