succumbing

英 [səˈkʌmɪŋ]

美 [səˈkʌmɪŋ]

v.  屈服; 屈从; 抵挡不住(攻击、疾病、诱惑等)
succumb的现在分词

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

• The truth is they could just as easily protest against themselves for blindly succumbing to this leveraged society.
  事实上，他们也大可抗议自己盲目屈服于这个杠杆化的社会。
• Before succumbing to these technologies, leaders should remember how little virtual war has actually accomplished.
  在向这些高科技“俯首称臣”之前，领导人们别忘了，虚拟战争在实际中取得的效果是何等有限。
• Now he's spilling his guts about succumbing to the siren call of "Low Prices" because he couldn't afford the$ 70 running shoes he found at the local sports store down the street.
  现在他实打实的准备向“廉价”的迷人召唤屈服了，因为他负担不起街道上当地鞋店70美元一双的跑鞋。
• In the light of her bereavement over willie's death, can we put serious blame upon Mary for succumbing?
  从玛丽对威利之死的伤恸这一点来看，我们能对她为此而陷于唯灵论加以苛责吗？
• And succumbing to the rhetoric of recrimination they accuse the rich of creating the global "bad" of polluting the atmosphere and demand reparations for past harm.
  它们动用反责的言词，指责富国做了不利于全球的“坏事”污染大气，要求富国为过往的伤害做出赔偿。
• It is due to start in the fiscal year starting in April, but the question is how to embrace public frugality without succumbing to private economic anorexia?
  预计财政紧缩将在始于4月份的财政年度启动，但问题是，如何推行公共节约，却不致引起私营经济厌食症？
• This kind of holistic approach to server virtualization is necessary to reap the benefits of the technology without succumbing to the perils of virtual sprawl.
  服务器虚拟化的这种整体方法对于从该技术获取效益来说是很有必要的，而不会面临虚拟蔓延的危险。
• Succumbing to those arguments would be a tragic mistake.
  如果屈从于那些叫嚣撤退的声音，那么这将会是一个悲剧性的错误。
• For those of us living and working in London, the sight of the streets succumbing to the sort of collective madness more commonly found in post-apocalyptic disaster movies was more than a little bemusing.
  对于我们这些居住和工作在伦敦的人而言，街道上充斥的那种集体疯狂的场景更常出现在末日浩劫风格的灾难电影中，这令人极为困惑。
• Business leaders always run the risk of gbecoming isolated and succumbing to flattery.
  商业领袖往往有遭到孤立和屈服于谄媚的风险。