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

• I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
  恐怕我是无法抵制奶酪饼的诱惑所以还是吃了一块。
• And I succumbed too quickiy.
  我对你屈服得太快了？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Have colleges simply succumbed to the mandatory technology trend to avoid being buried in the dust of the20th century?
  大学已简单地向强制性的技术潮流俯首称臣从而避免湮没于20世纪的尘埃中了吗？
• Now, the BBC World Service has succumbed to the leftist climate.
  现在，英国广播公司世界服务已屈服于左派气候。
• 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。
• The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
  在遭受了两个多月的重炮轰击后，小镇最终还是在上星期投降了。
• 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。