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

• The inflow of foreigners from the new Europe Union accession states makes life cheaper for middle-class taxpayers, but depresses the wages of some workers already here.
  来自欧盟（EU）新成员国的外国人降低了中层纳税人的生活成本，但也压低了已经在英国的部分工人的工资。
• State ownership depresses consumption demand.
  国家所有权抑制了消费需求。
• Many companies are paying out more in debt service charges than they are taking in profits as deflation depresses the prices of the products that they produce.
  许多企业要偿还的债务利息比它们的利润还多，因为通缩压低了它们产品的价格。
• The rainy season always depresses me.
  雨季总使我沮丧。
• Bad weather depresses me.
  坏天气使我感到郁闷。
• This grey weather depresses me.
  这种阴沉的天气使我感到没精神。
• The fall in investment depresses planned expenditure, which in turn depresses income.
  投资的下降压制了计划的支出，并进而降低了收入。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。