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

• 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。
• 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。
• The reality of your bank account will prevent you from succumbing to shopping excitement.
  银行账户的冷峻现实，会阻止你被消费的兴奋劲儿给压倒。
• 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。
• 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。
• This kind of holistic approach to server virtualization is necessary to reap the benefits of the technology without succumbing to the perils of virtual sprawl.
  服务器虚拟化的这种整体方法对于从该技术获取效益来说是很有必要的，而不会面临虚拟蔓延的危险。
• 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。
• 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。
• How to avoid nuclear war without succumbing to nuclear blackmail is the overwhelming problem of our age.
  如何避免核战争而又不屈服于核讹诈是我们时代的当务之急。