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

• Why should meeting someone again mean that you are succumbing to their'advances '?
  而且答案也很奇怪，为什么再见一个人就是屈服于它的要求呢？
• 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。
• Mr Mandelson is accused by Whirlpool, the US home appliance maker with operations in Europe, of succumbing to devious lobbying activity and of a serious breach in procedures.
  旗下拥有欧洲业务的美国家电制造商惠而浦（Whirlpool）指责曼德尔森屈从不正当的游说行为，而且严重违反程序。
• 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。
• 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。
• Among the three countries with the most gold medals thus far, China cries the least, with only 7% of its athletes succumbing to tears.
  在目前奖牌榜上的前三名国家中，中国人最不容易哭，只有7%的中国运动员会忍不住流泪。
• 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。
• Even cancer is succumbing to treatment.
  就连癌症也不再是不治之症。
• 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。
• An impatient generation is succumbing to the free and easy lure of computer enlightenment.
  如今，我们没耐心的年轻一代人正屈服于计算机求知免费方便的诱惑。