- 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，沮丧；使萧条
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1. Wet weather always depresses me.
阴雨天总使我心情抑郁。
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2. It depresses me to see so many young girls smoking.
看到这么多女孩抽烟令我感到很沮丧。
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3. The recession has depressed the housing market.
经济衰退导致住房市场不景气。
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4. to depress wages, to depress prices
减少工资；降低价格
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5. to depress the clutch pedal when driving
（开车时）踩离合器踏板
- 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.
de·press ★ AWL / dɪˈpres ; NAmE dɪˈpres / verb 1 ★ to make sb sad and without enthusiasm or hope 使抑郁；使沮丧；使消沉；使失去信心 depresssb ◆ Wet weather always depresses me. 阴雨天总使我心情抑郁。 it depresses sb to do sth ◆ It depresses me to see so many young girls smoking. 看到这么多女孩抽烟令我感到很沮丧。 2 depresssth to make trade, business, etc. less active 使萧条；使不景气 ◆ The recession has depressed the housing market. 经济衰退导致住房市场不景气。 3 depresssth to make the value of prices or wages lower 降低（价格）；减少（工资） ◆ to depress wages/prices 减少工资；降低价格 4 depresssth ( formal) to press or push sth down, especially part of a machine 按，压，推下（尤指机器部件） ◆ to depress the clutch pedal (= when driving) （开车时）踩离合器踏板 depress depresses depressed depressing de·press / dɪˈpres ; NAmE dɪˈpres /
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