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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If so, calm down, you could be on the point of succumbing to a bout of web rage!
  如果是这样的话，请你冷静，你可能正处于网怒情绪爆发的边缘！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But these arguments are now succumbing to sheer weight of evidence.
  但是这些说法在强有力的证据面前正败下阵来。
• 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。