deject
英 [dɪ'dʒekt]
美
- vt. 使…沮丧；使…灰心
- adj. 沮丧的；气馁的
助记提示
1. 字面意思：被扔下里，被丢下来。比喻：心情、情绪一落千丈，情绪低落，情绪跌入谷底。情绪被扔到了谷底。
英英释意
- 1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted;
- "These news depressed her"
- "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
英文词源
- deject (v.)
- early 15c., "to throw or cast down," from Old French dejeter (12c.), from Latin deiectus "a throwing down, felling, fall," past participle of deicere "to cast down, destroy; drive out; kill, slay, defeat," from de- "down" + -icere, comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Originally literal; the sense of "depress in spirit" is c. 1500.