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

• The old man succumbed to cancer.
  很多人死于癌症。
• 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。
• He made his mistake because he succumbed to the influence of bourgeois ideas.
  他的错误，是受了资产阶级思想的影响。
• Jenny succumbed to a last minute panic.
  詹妮死于最后一刻的惊恐。
• 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。
• In the actual sex-thrill within the Body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
  这姊妹俩在性的快感中，几乎在男性的奇异的权力下面屈服了。
• After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed.
  在持续炮轰数日后，该城终于屈服了。
• He wanted to be an actor but succumbed to parental pressure to be respectable and trained as a lawyer.
  他想成为一名演员，但还是屈服于父母的压力为寻求体面而学了律师课程。
• 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。
• 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。