| 单词 | depressed |
| 释义 | depressed (dɪprest ) 1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] B1+ If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant. He seemed somewhat depressed. She's been very depressed and upset about this whole situation. Synonyms: sad, down, low, blue 2. adjective A depressed place or industry does not have enough business or employment to be successful. ...legislation to encourage investment in depressed areas. The construction industry is no longer as depressed as it was. Synonyms: poverty-stricken, poor, deprived, distressed 3. graded adjective A depressed point on a surface is lower than the parts around it. Acupressure is manual pressure applied to a specific slightly depressed point on the body. Synonyms: sunken, hollow, recessed, set back Collocations: depressed economy The depressed economy has undoubtedly played a part in the recent rise in student numbers. Times, Sunday Times She listed the factors: a depressed economy, currency devaluation, and a high unemployment rate. Globe and Mail It was assumed that to avoid paying the weekly taxes on the money, the tender would be spent immediately, thus boosting the depressed economy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This has helped to improve the depressed economy of the region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In an effort to reverse the high crime rate and the depressed economy, the community has undergone some redevelopments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both clubs want to take advantage of a depressed market to improve their options at centre forward. Times,Sunday Times The car industry believes that more credit would boost the depressed market for new cars. Times, Sunday Times There will also be a trickle-down to the rest of an already depressed market. Times, Sunday Times Equities have been affected, too, with institutional income about 25 per cent lower over the same period owing to 'depressed market activity' levels. Times, Sunday Times Repossessed properties may provide beleaguered estate agents with a bit of business and 'vulture' buyers with auction bargains, but they make up a small fraction even of a depressed market. Times, Sunday Times This results in fatigue, muscle weakness, depressed mood and decreased appetite. The Sun They're an excellent source of folic acid, a lack of which has been linked to depressed mood. The Sun Research has linked insulin resistance with a depressed mood, too. Times, Sunday Times Studies indicate that task-unrelated thoughts are common in people with low or depressed mood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely than the average to experience such feelings as anxiety, anger, envy, guilt, and depressed mood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Depressed prices and low mortgage rates are also proving attractive. Times, Sunday Times It blamed depressed prices on 'the large stock of property on estate agents' books relative to the pool of able buyers'. Times, Sunday Times Low mortgage rates — less than 4% for 30-year fixed-rate deals — and depressed prices have pushed homebuyer affordability to record levels, especially for buy-to-let investors. Times, Sunday Times Yet company directors increasingly are taking advantage of depressed prices to pick up shares in the companies they run. Times, Sunday Times He has heard powerful evidence in private meetings how the stranglehold of supermarket prices has depressed prices. Times, Sunday Times A depressed region in the lower part of the back of the skull suggests that the jaw adductor muscles were also large, facilitating jaw opening. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are found in a depressed region called the circumnarial fossa. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And he revealed action it could take includes limiting the scheme to more depressed regions. The Sun I agree that in normal times we could fund more spending on pensions, agriculture, depressed regions and the like through growth, but we are not living in normal times. Times, Sunday Times The commission's answer so far has been to invest more in infrastructure in depressed regions to boost employment and ensure they keep on voting for the mainstream. Times, Sunday Times The poem, they argue, comes out of a 'worryingly familiar' scenario of financial crisis, privatization, depressed wages, rising prices and widespread unrest - 'a political tinder-box'. The Times Literary Supplement People with depressed wages and soaring bills are suffering. The Sun What the rich might gain in terms of cheaper domestic staff, for example, the poor lose in terms of depressed wages and in competition for public services and housing. Times, Sunday Times Our workforce has developed a high proportion of low-skilled, low-paid workers over the past decade, which adds to an overall picture of depressed wages. Times, Sunday Times Next came the enormous oil-price rises that turned the 1970s into the most economically depressed decade since the 1930s. Times, Sunday Times Suppose, for example, that you're in an economically depressed area and many families are moving away in search of work. Christianity Today The schools said that they served communities which were historically disadvantaged and economically depressed with high levels of unemployment. ST In both cases, they tend to be concentrated in economically depressed areas, or at least regions less prosperous than urban ones. Globe and Mail They were short on cash, drew puny crowds in a town they spoke of as being economically depressed. Globe and Mail Mildly depressed individuals are less likely either to over-or underestimate, and therefore have a more accurate view. Times, Sunday Times They were exceptional in my year, and you would probably have been mildly depressed if they hadn't gone sky-high. Times, Sunday Times The lack of explicitness means that even quite young people should be able to see the film, and be mildly depressed by it. The Times Literary Supplement Researchers found that, among friends, rival joke-tellers often try to outdo each other - leaving those unable to compete feeling mildly depressed. Times, Sunday Times His doctor thinks he maybe mildly depressed. Times, Sunday Times There are many ways of looking at the 20th century, and most of them leave me feeling profoundly depressed. Times, Sunday Times He comes across as wise, but sad, and profoundly depressed by their situation. Times,Sunday Times That first winter she was profoundly depressed. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps some were duped into this unspeakable lifestyle by false advertising; the rest, she briskly concludes, 'must have been profoundly depressed'. Times, Sunday Times From his own, brief description of himself after this episode he seems traumatized and profoundly depressed. The Times Literary Supplement If she's seriously depressed, she needs to get proper treatment. The Sun The experience left her seriously depressed, with a restless need to advocate for others: her way of turning torment into something positive. Times, Sunday Times I have a friend who stops eating when she's seriously depressed because, as she puts it, the pain in her stomach distracts her from the pain in her head. Times, Sunday Times He was heartbroken and seriously depressed. The Sun Though if you really are feeling seriously depressed, you might need a talking treatment need or even medication. The Sun Even among the most severely depressed, who were less responsive to placebos, the improvement in the control group was still 'significant'. Times, Sunday Times Severely depressed individuals are more likely to overestimate the negative events and underestimate the positive. Times, Sunday Times He claims that after two months, nine of the patients no longer fitted the 'severely depressed' category and one cheered up significantly. Times, Sunday Times But you cannot be a mind-reader, and severely depressed people often do all they can to disguise how low they feel. The Sun I helped treat a senior politician who had become addicted to alcohol and another who was severely depressed. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 抑郁的 Japanese: 意気消沈した |
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