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

• 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？
• 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。
• But in times of stress, a person is prone to succumbing to the suppressed trait that led to his career choice, whether breaking the law or binge eating.
  但一旦面临压力，一个人会倾向屈从于诱使自己做出职业选择的某种被压抑的品质，比如违法或暴饮暴食。
• Even the mighty China was succumbing to western hegemony in the opium wars.
  鸦片战争中，连强大的中国都屈服于西方强权。
• The political challenge is to harness the energy of their young, without succumbing to the catastrophes that hit high-income countries at a similar demographic stage: war, first and foremost.
  他们面临的政治挑战是要驾驭住本国年轻人的活力，避免高收入国家在类似人口结构阶段遭遇的灾难&最重要的是要避免战争。
• As the country gets richer, the population is succumbing in ever larger numbers to diseases associated with affluence, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cancer all of which present big opportunities for pharmaceutical companies.
  随着中国越来越富有，越来越多的中国人患上了与富裕相关的疾病，比如肥胖、高血压、糖尿病和癌症这些都给制药公司带来了巨大机遇。
• NEW DELHI& Her first child survived eight months before succumbing to pneumonia; her second was stillborn; her third, delivered in a rickshaw, gasped for an hour before dying.
  新德里&她的第一个孩子在被肺炎夺去生命之前，只存活了8个月；她的第二个孩子是死胎；她的第三个孩子在人力车里出生，喘息一小时后就死亡了。
• The reality of your bank account will prevent you from succumbing to shopping excitement.
  银行账户的冷峻现实，会阻止你被消费的兴奋劲儿给压倒。
• The Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the4th century BC.
  斯基泰人成立了一个丰富，功能强大的帝国屈服在公元前4世纪的萨尔马提亚之前的几百年存活。
• 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？