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| 1 | U a feeling of being extremely unhappy 沮丧；消沉 |
| Some children show signs of anxiety and depression at exam time. 有些儿童在考试期间会表现出焦虑和沮丧的迹象。 |
| | 1a | a medical condition in which a person is so unhappy that they cannot live a normal life 抑郁症 | | suffer from depression She suffered a lot from depression after the death of her husband. 她在丈夫去世后患了严重的抑郁症。 | |
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| 2 | C/U a period of time when there is a lot of unemployment and poverty because there is very little economic activity 萧条；不景气 |
| periods of economic depression 经济萧条时期 |
| The country is sliding into a depression. 该国正陷入经济萧条。 |
| | 2a | in the UK, US , and some other countries, a period during the late 1920s and early 1930s when there were very few jobs and a lot of poverty because the economy was so bad 大萧条（指英美等国20世纪20年代末和30年代初的经济萧条） | |
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| 3 | C technical a large mass of air at low pressure that usually brings colder weather and rain 低气压 |
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| 4 | C formal an area on a surface that is lower than the parts around it 凹地；洼地 |
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