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

• 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。
• 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。
• I occasionally succumb to the same temptation.
  我偶尔也会屈服于同样的诱惑。
• Those who claim that this effect would be small succumb either to an illusion or deliberately underestimate this risk.
  主张后一种效应不大的人，要么产生了幻觉，要么故意低估这一风险。
• I was determined not to succumb to the virus.
  我坚决不向病毒屈服。
• Every time I succumb to this temptation, I regret it.
  每次我屈服于这种诱惑时，我都感到后悔。
• If we have a multitude of our own IBM and microsoft, will we succumb to high-tech embargoes?
  如果我们有自己的微软和ibm，我们还用怕高科技封锁吗？
• This suggests that geometric shapes in the universe ultimately succumb to this mathematical property.
  这表明，宇宙中的几何形状最终还是屈服于这个数学属性。
• They must succumb or adapt radically in the coming few years.
  未来几年，它们必须屈服或做出彻底的调整。
• I will never succumb to your temptation.
  我决不会屈服于你的诱惑。