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Dejection is the feeling itself — that unhappy, disappointed, thrown-down mood — not the person who feels it. A look of dejection means the face shows it. A wave of dejection is the feeling arriving all at once. English speakers use the adjective dejected much more than this noun; many will just say sadness, disappointment, or feeling down. In very old medical writing the same noun could mean something the body passes out, so a Victorian doctor’s note is a different job for the word. In normal modern English, keep it for the mood.
沮喪；情緒低落
組成From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By the look of the English, deject + -ion.
同家族的字
- dejectedthe adjective: a person who has this feeling
- dejectedlythe adverb: in this low way
- rejectsame Latin -ject, “throw”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dejectionnoun/dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/
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A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
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The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
- Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.
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A low condition; weakness; inability.
- Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
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archaicmedicinesciencesDefecation or feces.
- No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
- His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。