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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The political challenge is to harness the energy of their young, without succumbing to the catastrophes that hit high-income countries at a similar demographic stage: war, first and foremost.
  他们面临的政治挑战是要驾驭住本国年轻人的活力，避免高收入国家在类似人口结构阶段遭遇的灾难&最重要的是要避免战争。
• Now he's spilling his guts about succumbing to the siren call of "Low Prices" because he couldn't afford the$ 70 running shoes he found at the local sports store down the street.
  现在他实打实的准备向“廉价”的迷人召唤屈服了，因为他负担不起街道上当地鞋店70美元一双的跑鞋。
• 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。
• Business leaders always run the risk of gbecoming isolated and succumbing to flattery.
  商业领袖往往有遭到孤立和屈服于谄媚的风险。
• 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。
• 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。
• But in times of stress, a person is prone to succumbing to the suppressed trait that led to his career choice, whether breaking the law or binge eating.
  但一旦面临压力，一个人会倾向屈从于诱使自己做出职业选择的某种被压抑的品质，比如违法或暴饮暴食。