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

• 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。
• Even Guinness has succumbed.
  即使吉尼斯也已屈服。
• But her career eventually succumbed to her husband's even bigger success.
  但最终她的事业还是败给了更为成功的丈夫。
• Stockmarkets around the world succumbed to another tumultuous week, falling steeply in Asia and Europe.
  全球的股票市场屈从到另外的一个吵闹的星期，在亚洲和欧洲险峻地落下。
• It also emerged on Wednesday night that a21-month-old toddler had succumbed to flu in Hong Kong late last month.
  周三晚有消息称，上个月晚些时候香港一名21个月大的幼儿死于流感。
• What can also be seen is a curious evolutionary tale-for not all ichthyosaurs succumbed.
  但因为并非所有鱼龙都有畸变，所以人们也看到了一种新奇的进化现象。
• If I had followed the rules, I would have succumbed to terror and failed my children.
  如果我也遵循了这些规则，我也许就向恐惧投降了，也会使我的孩子失望。
• 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。
• The island's inhabitants had no immunity to the diseases carried by the explorers and quickly succumbed.
  岛上居民对探险者携带的病毒没有免疫力，很快就死去了。
• The helpless wounded succumbed to her charms without a struggle.
  那些无依无靠的伤兵会乖乖地屈服于她的魅力之下。