depreciate

英 [dɪ'priːʃieɪt] 美 [dɪ'priːʃieɪt]

• v. 贬值；降价；轻视

英英释义

Verb:

1. belittle;

   "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
   

2. lower the value of something;

   "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again"
   

3. lose in value;

   "The dollar depreciated again"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. If you neglect this property, it will depreciate.
   如果你忽视这份资产，它无形中就贬值了。
2. New cars start to depreciate as soon as they are on the road.
   新车一上路就开始贬值。

经典引文

• Before this Wilde depreciated pity as a motive in art; now he embraced it.

  出自： R. Ellmann

词汇搭配

• depreciated money 贬值货币

近反义词

【近义词】

• deflate 放气
• belittle 轻视
• devalue 贬值
• disparage 蔑视
• lessen 减少
• decline 下降
• downgrade 使降低
• denigrate 诋毁
• run down 撞倒
• criticize 批评
• dis 反对
• deteriorate 恶化
• cheapen 降低
• impute 归罪于
• dishonor 不名誉
• underestimate 低估
• alloy 合金
• lower 低的
• vilipend 轻视
• devaluate 贬值
• undervalue 低估价值
• deprecate 声明不赞成

【反义词】

• appreciate 欣赏
• appraise 评价
• value 价值
• evaluate 评价
• estimate 估价