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dejection

/dih-jek-shuhn/US // dɪˈdʒɛk ʃən //UK // (dɪˈdʒɛkʃən) //

颓废,沮丧,拒绝,颓丧

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : depression or lowness of spirits.
    • : Medicine/Medical, Physiology. evacuation of the bowels; fecal discharge.excrement.

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Examples

  • I was dejected and rejected yet again by someone who cashed my checks to tell me how to deal with dejection and rejection.

  • Of just such a dejection of spirit had she observed the signs in Valerie; let them profit by it while it lasted.

  • Every third day his convulsive tremblings, his dejection, his fits of wandering, seemed to indicate the approach of dissolution.

  • Sitting down at the table, he dropped his head into his hands and shut his eyes in utter dejection.

  • Perhaps it would make them ashamed of their dejection, and fill them with the spirit of the heroic days.

  • Thus he sat, dejection and despair stamped on his homely face; haughty, yet a suppliant; a king, yet only by sufferance.