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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel consulted his barometer, and found that the depression of the mercury corresponded to an elevation of 11,000 feet, only 910 meters lower than Mont Blanc.
-- "The PAMPERO generally brings a tempest which lasts three days, and may be always foretold by the depression of the mercury," he said.
-- No doubt the tree would be able to resist the current, but the waters might rise higher and higher, till the topmost branches were covered, for the depression of the soil made this part of the plain a deep reservoir.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This valley bifurcates to the parallel of the Antilles, and terminates at the mouth by the enormous depression of 9,000 yards.
-- The depth of the sea is not great at Newfoundland not more than some hundreds of fathoms; but towards the south is a depression of 1,500 fathoms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That done, there was only the angle to calculate by bringing back the observation to the level of the sea, taking into consideration the depression of the horizon, which would necessitate measuring the height of the cliff.
-- There was there a sort of depression in the water, as if it was suddenly lost in some fissure in the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- They dwelt upon the old man's imbecility of mind, upon the uneasiness the child had always testified when he was absent, upon the company he had been supposed to keep, and upon the increased depression which had gradually crept over her and changed her both in health and spirits.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was his one resource against the depression which held him.
-- Not trained to reason or introspect himself, he could not analyse the change that was taking place in his mind, and hence his body, but he felt the depression of it.
-- This left him in no mood to enjoy his flat or Carrie, and consequently the depression invaded that quarter.
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