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 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。
• Inevitably, many of the fledgling republics succumbed to hyperinflation.
  不可避免的是，很多新兴共和国陷入了极度通胀。
• Finally, he succumbed to her persuasion and decided to change his original plan.
  最后他被她说服了，决定改变原计划。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• He finally succumbed to the cancer a year ago.
  一年前，他最终向癌症屈服。
• Even Guinness has succumbed.
  即使吉尼斯也已屈服。
• 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。