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。
• 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。
• 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。
• NEW DELHI& Her first child survived eight months before succumbing to pneumonia; her second was stillborn; her third, delivered in a rickshaw, gasped for an hour before dying.
  新德里&她的第一个孩子在被肺炎夺去生命之前，只存活了8个月；她的第二个孩子是死胎；她的第三个孩子在人力车里出生，喘息一小时后就死亡了。
• Before succumbing to her injuries.
  在屈从于对她的伤害之前。
• Even cancer is succumbing to treatment.
  就连癌症也不再是不治之症。
• More worrying for investors, however, is the question of whether PetroChina is succumbing to the industry disease of rising costs and capital expenditure.
  但更令投资者担心的是，他们怀疑中石油是否感染了整个行业的弊病：成本和资本支出不断上升。
• 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。
• They would not in the end abandon their vital interests by succumbing to Soviet blandishment.
  他们最终决不会受苏联人的甜言蜜语的诱惑，从而抛弃自己的切身利益。
• Now he's spilling his guts about succumbing to the siren call of "Low Prices" because he couldn't afford the$ 70 running shoes he found at the local sports store down the street.
  现在他实打实的准备向“廉价”的迷人召唤屈服了，因为他负担不起街道上当地鞋店70美元一双的跑鞋。