depressed是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 情绪低落的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not want-ing among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
-- All the people of the village were at the fountain, stand-ing about in their depressed manner, and whispering low, but showing no other emotions than grim curiosity and surprise.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches.
-- Towards ten o'clock, when she usually said good-night to her son, and often before going to a ball put him to bed herself, she felt depressed at being so far from him; and whatever she was talking about, she kept coming back in thought to her curly-headed Seryozha.
-- Shtcherbatsky told me another story--he met you--that you were in such a depressed state, talking of nothing but death...." "Well, what of it?
-- The countess's silence had subdued and depressed her, but the letter, all that she read between the lines in it, so exasperated her, this malice was so revolting beside her passionate, legitimate tenderness for her son, that she turned against other people and left off blaming herself.
-- He was glad of a chance to be alone to recover from the influence of ordinary actual life, which had already depressed his happy mood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This article made a great deal of noise, and, being copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III When he was depressed by a wonder as to why he was here, listening to a Professor Robertshaw, repeating verses about fat-eared Germans, learning the trade of medicine like Fatty Pfaff or Irving Watters, then Martin had relief in what he considered debauches.
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：
-- For, you know, I am a gloomy, depressed person.
-- A chorus of wretched singers and a drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich with a red nose entertained the public.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The way inwhich I listened to all the incidents of the house that madethemselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and 62shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on thestairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, whichseemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude anddisgrace- the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, whenI would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the familywere not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet tocome- the depressed dreams and nightmares I had- the return ofday, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in thechurchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room,being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they shouldknow I was a prisoner- the strange sensation of never hearingmyself speak- the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness,which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it- thesetting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its comingdown faster and faster between me and the church, until it andgathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, andremorseall this appears to have gone round and round for yearsinstead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on myremembrance.
-- Papa was very much depressed then, and more boweddown by care than ever you or I have seen him; but he seemedrelieved by this expedient of the partnership, though at the sametime he seemed hurt by it and ashamed of it.'
-- I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt anuneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to theoccasion.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, my dear, if there is time. But (in a very depressed tone) she is coming for only one week.
-- 'No,' replied Emma quite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still spoke 'I should like to take an-other turn.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sight had quite depressed her this evening; had reminded her of her folly; she wished anew, as she had wished many months ago, for some means of making reparation for her fault.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
-- Even I, depressed in mind, and my spirits continually agitated by gloomy feelings, even I was pleased.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dim room with toweringwalls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
-- Large numbers of books always depressed her, as did people who liked to readlarge numbers of books.
-- It bewildered and depressed her.
-- Besides, the tone of the letter vaguely depressed her with its foolish talk of defeat.
-- Captain Carey Ashburn's useless arm was hurting him again and moreover he was depressed by the thought thathis courtship of Scarlett was at a standstill.
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