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。
• 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。
• Jenny succumbed to a last minute panic.
  詹妮死于最后一刻的惊恐。
• The old man succumbed to cancer.
  很多人死于癌症。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Have colleges simply succumbed to the mandatory technology trend to avoid being buried in the dust of the20th century?
  大学已简单地向强制性的技术潮流俯首称臣从而避免湮没于20世纪的尘埃中了吗？
• The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
  在遭受了两个多月的重炮轰击后，小镇最终还是在上星期投降了。