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

• It also emerged on Wednesday night that a21-month-old toddler had succumbed to flu in Hong Kong late last month.
  周三晚有消息称，上个月晚些时候香港一名21个月大的幼儿死于流感。
• Can Ulysses bind himself again to the deck, having succumbed for so long to the sirens 'allure?
  在长时间屈从于女妖的诱惑之后，尤利塞斯（Ulysses）还能再把自己绑在甲板上吗？
• 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。
• Thousands of children in Africa succumbed to malnutrition.
  成千上万的非洲孩子死于营养不良。
• What can also be seen is a curious evolutionary tale-for not all ichthyosaurs succumbed.
  但因为并非所有鱼龙都有畸变，所以人们也看到了一种新奇的进化现象。
• I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
  恐怕我是无法抵制奶酪饼的诱惑所以还是吃了一块。
• 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。
• The doctor analyzed the symptoms of the malady to which the prisoner had succumbed, and declared that he was dead.
  医生分析了犯人所得的病症，宣布他已经死了。
• 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。
• The island's inhabitants had no immunity to the diseases carried by the explorers and quickly succumbed.
  岛上居民对探险者携带的病毒没有免疫力，很快就死去了。