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

• Even the mighty China was succumbing to western hegemony in the opium wars.
  鸦片战争中，连强大的中国都屈服于西方强权。
• 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。
• The reality of your bank account will prevent you from succumbing to shopping excitement.
  银行账户的冷峻现实，会阻止你被消费的兴奋劲儿给压倒。
• 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。
• Therefore, men who cannot adapt and end up succumbing to temptation and cheating are likely to be more stupid.
  因此，那些无法适应并最终屈服于诱惑和欺骗的男性有可能更愚蠢。
• Before succumbing to her injuries.
  在屈从于对她的伤害之前。
• For those of us living and working in London, the sight of the streets succumbing to the sort of collective madness more commonly found in post-apocalyptic disaster movies was more than a little bemusing.
  对于我们这些居住和工作在伦敦的人而言，街道上充斥的那种集体疯狂的场景更常出现在末日浩劫风格的灾难电影中，这令人极为困惑。
• But these arguments are now succumbing to sheer weight of evidence.
  但是这些说法在强有力的证据面前正败下阵来。
• It is due to start in the fiscal year starting in April, but the question is how to embrace public frugality without succumbing to private economic anorexia?
  预计财政紧缩将在始于4月份的财政年度启动，但问题是，如何推行公共节约，却不致引起私营经济厌食症？
• The truth is they could just as easily protest against themselves for blindly succumbing to this leveraged society.
  事实上，他们也大可抗议自己盲目屈服于这个杠杆化的社会。