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。
• A few years later, Katya succumbed to cancer in London
  几年后，卡佳因患癌症在伦敦病逝。
• 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。
• 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。
• The animal succumbed to smoke inhalation and did not survive, the fire department said.
  消防部门称，这只小动物因吸入浓烟而丧生了。
• The old man succumbed to cancer.
  很多人死于癌症。
• Nowadays some cadres are no longer red since they have succumbed to rich peasant thinking.
  现在，有些干部红也不红了，是富农思想了。
• The town succumbed after a short siege.
  该城被围困不久即告失守。
• 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。
• 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。