succumb

英 [səˈkʌm]

美 [səˈkʌm]

v.  屈服; 屈从; 抵挡不住(攻击、疾病、诱惑等)

过去式：succumbed　过去分词：succumbed　现在分词：succumbing　第三人称单数：succumbs　

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牛津词典

verb

• 屈服；屈从；抵挡不住（攻击、疾病、诱惑等）
  to not be able to fight an attack, an illness, a temptation , etc.
  1. The town succumbed after a short siege.
     该城被围困不久即告失守。
  2. His career was cut short when he succumbed to cancer.
     他的事业随着他死于癌症而中断。
  3. He finally succumbed to Lucy's charms and agreed to her request.
     他最终为露西的魅力所倾倒，答应了她的请求。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 屈从于，屈服于，抵挡不住(诱惑或压力)
  If yousuccumb totemptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong.
  1. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette...
     不要经不住诱惑，只抽一支烟也不行。
  2. The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
     首相说他的国家永远都不会屈服于压迫。
• VERB 感染，死于(疾病)
  If yousuccumb toan illness, you become affected by it or die from it.
  1. A few years later, Katya succumbed to cancer in London...
     几年后，卡佳因患癌症在伦敦病逝。
  2. I was determined not to succumb to the virus.
     我坚决不向病毒屈服。

英英释义

verb

• consent reluctantly
  Synonym:yieldgive inknuckle underbuckle under
• be fatally overwhelmed
  Synonym:yield

双语例句

• The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
  首相说他的国家永远都不会屈服于压迫。
• I was determined not to succumb to the virus.
  我坚决不向病毒屈服。
• I occasionally succumb to the same temptation.
  我偶尔也会屈服于同样的诱惑。
• He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions — to succumb, as he put it, to a siren song.
  他说美国不愿意参与仅仅解决部分问题的方案的探索——按照他的说法，这种做法就是向诱惑低头。
• On some of the biggest decisions in their lives, people succumb to inertia, ignorance or irresolution.
  人们在做人生中最重大决定的时候会听任于惰性、无知或者犹豫不决。
• I am in to us of this respect succumb feel baffling, we can let consumer gain better experience originally.
  我对我们在这方面的屈服感到不可理解，我们本来可以让消费者获得更好的体验的。
• So every day he prays not to succumb to it and to focus on what matters to him.
  所以，他每天祈祷自己不要屈服在贪婪的心理之下，而要把心思放在对自己重要的事情上。
• Do not succumb to social pressures.
  别屈服于社会压力。
• The implication, that the US economy will slow or more likely succumb to recession, is unavoidable.
  这难免意味着，美国经济就将减速，或者更可能的情况是陷入衰退。
• To him, all opponents would eventually succumb, bored into submission.
  对他而言，所有对手最终都会屈服，厌烦得屈服。