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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Why should meeting someone again mean that you are succumbing to their'advances '?
  而且答案也很奇怪，为什么再见一个人就是屈服于它的要求呢？
• And succumbing to the rhetoric of recrimination they accuse the rich of creating the global "bad" of polluting the atmosphere and demand reparations for past harm.
  它们动用反责的言词，指责富国做了不利于全球的“坏事”污染大气，要求富国为过往的伤害做出赔偿。
• 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。
• Mrs.? Smith washed and ironed clothes for him, succumbing to him.
  史密斯太太被他迷住了，愿意为他洗衣烫衣。
• As the country gets richer, the population is succumbing in ever larger numbers to diseases associated with affluence, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cancer all of which present big opportunities for pharmaceutical companies.
  随着中国越来越富有，越来越多的中国人患上了与富裕相关的疾病，比如肥胖、高血压、糖尿病和癌症这些都给制药公司带来了巨大机遇。
• The Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the4th century BC.
  斯基泰人成立了一个丰富，功能强大的帝国屈服在公元前4世纪的萨尔马提亚之前的几百年存活。