Depreciation

(noun.) a decrease in price or value; 'depreciation of the dollar against the yen'.

(noun.) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use.

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• He expected a start, a look of depreciation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• An abstract and indefinite future is in control with all which that connotes in depreciation of present power and opportunity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The writers of comedy satisfied that almost universal craving for the depreciation of those whose apparent excellence offends our self-love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead--abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The men crowded about Tarzan with many questions, but his only answer was a laughing depreciation of his feat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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