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

• 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。
• 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。
• Mr Mandelson is accused by Whirlpool, the US home appliance maker with operations in Europe, of succumbing to devious lobbying activity and of a serious breach in procedures.
  旗下拥有欧洲业务的美国家电制造商惠而浦（Whirlpool）指责曼德尔森屈从不正当的游说行为，而且严重违反程序。
• 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。
• Among the three countries with the most gold medals thus far, China cries the least, with only 7% of its athletes succumbing to tears.
  在目前奖牌榜上的前三名国家中，中国人最不容易哭，只有7%的中国运动员会忍不住流泪。
• 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。
• 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。
• Business leaders always run the risk of gbecoming isolated and succumbing to flattery.
  商业领袖往往有遭到孤立和屈服于谄媚的风险。
• Even cancer is succumbing to treatment.
  就连癌症也不再是不治之症。
• 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。