depression是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 消沉； 不景气萧条期，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wrote, t, i, c, n, a, d. Dolly was completely comforted in the depression caused by her conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch when she caught sight of the two figures: Kitty with the chalk in her hand, with a shy and happy smile looking upwards at Levin, and his handsome figure bending over the table with glowing eyes fastened one minute on the table and the next on her.
-- As for the amusements of bachelor existence, which had provided Vronsky with entertainment on previous tours abroad, they could not be thought of, since the sole attempt of the sort had led to a sudden attack of depression in Anna, quite out of proportion with the cause--a late supper with bachelor friends.
-- His heart warmed to Golenishtchev for this remark, and from a state of depression he suddenly passed to ecstasy.
-- After living for some time in Moscow, especially in close relations with his family, he was conscious of a depression of spirits.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
-- While the worthy Frenchman was absorbed in the state of the sky and the depression of the temperature, Aouda was experiencing fears from a totally different cause.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lay and resolved to curse them all in the morning and go off with Leora, but with the coming of the three- o'clock depression he perceived that with him she would probably starve, that he was disgraced, that it was not at all certain he would not become a drunkard.
-- He had only a little resented their gossip about his wickedness, only in evenings of slow depression had he meditated upon fleeing from them, but at their laughter he was black furious.
-- That evening, the hot breeze languished along the palm-waving ridge where the ashes of Gustaf Sondelius were lost among cinders, and a depression in a garden marked the grave of Leora.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even his depression had passed, there was not a trace now of the energy with which he had set out 'to make an end of it all.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wickfield, left to Agnes, soon became more like his former self;though there was a settled depression upon him, which he nevershook off.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up the sides of this depression grew sheaves of the common rush, and here and there a peculiar species of flag, the blades of which glistened in the emerging sun, like scythes.
-- Troy toiled up the road with a languor and depression greater than any he had experienced for many a day and year before.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if he knew I did love him " Her volatile spirits shot up from deepest depression to excited happiness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
-- My depression was not alleviated by the announcement, for, I had supposed that establishment to be an hotel kept by Mr. Barnard, to which the Blue Boar in our town was a mere public-house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cried out, as in a rapture, 'Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal!Happy peo-ple, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages!but happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bar said, there was a certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go; that the point varied with various textures of brain and peculiarities of constitution, as he had had occasion to notice in several of his learned brothers; but the point of endurance passed by a line's breadth, depression and dyspepsia ensued.
-- If Little Dorrit found herself left a little lonely and a little low that night, nothing would have done so much against her feeling of depression as the being able to sit at work by her father, as in the old time, and help him to his supper and his rest.
-- I must take such precautions as will prevent my being ever again reduced to the state of dreadful depression in which I am this evening.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
-- In profile, you plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic depression in the forehead's middle, which, in man, is Lavater's mark of genius.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her face expressed the mingled expectancy, dissatisfaction, and depression she felt.
-- It was a finer mental strain in her that made possible her depression and loneliness.
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