succumbed

英 [səˈkʌmd]

美 [səˈkʌmd]

v.  屈服; 屈从; 抵挡不住(攻击、疾病、诱惑等)
succumb的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed.
  在持续炮轰数日后，该城终于屈服了。
• Finally, he succumbed to her persuasion and decided to change his original plan.
  最后他被她说服了，决定改变原计划。
• The animal succumbed to smoke inhalation and did not survive, the fire department said.
  消防部门称，这只小动物因吸入浓烟而丧生了。
• The doctor analyzed the symptoms of the malady to which the prisoner had succumbed, and declared that he was dead.
  医生分析了犯人所得的病症，宣布他已经死了。
• He made his mistake because he succumbed to the influence of bourgeois ideas.
  他的错误，是受了资产阶级思想的影响。
• Thousands of children in Africa succumbed to malnutrition.
  成千上万的非洲孩子死于营养不良。
• Faced with increasing pressure from civil rights groups, they finally succumbed.
  迫于公民权组织日益增大的压力，他们最终屈服了。
• Now, the BBC World Service has succumbed to the leftist climate.
  现在，英国广播公司世界服务已屈服于左派气候。
• I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
  恐怕我是无法抵制奶酪饼的诱惑所以还是吃了一块。
• Inevitably, many of the fledgling republics succumbed to hyperinflation.
  不可避免的是，很多新兴共和国陷入了极度通胀。