| 词汇 | succumbing |
| 释义 | succumbing present participle ofsuccumb succumb verb[ I ] formaluk /səˈkʌm/ us /səˈkʌm/ C2 to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: 屈从，屈服；放弃抵抗；承认失败 The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.在遭受了两个多月的猛烈炮火轰击后，小镇最终在上星期放弃了抵抗。 I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.我还是没顶住诱惑，吃了一块奶酪蛋糕。 I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.我确信他为我的魅力所倾倒只不过是个时间问题。 C2 to die or suffer badly from an illness: 病死;生病;受病痛折磨 Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.过去几个月里，几千头奶牛都得了这种病。 to stop living dieMy dog died last week. die a natural/violent deathShe dies a natural death at home, surrounded by loved ones. pass awayHe passed away peacefully in hospital. pass onI'm sorry to hear that your grandfather has passed on. passUSMy father passed last year. Losing and being defeated admit admit defeatphrase battering chase chase shadowsidiom concede defeat fallen give give in go down knuckle meet non-winning say say uncleidiom succumb take a batteringidiom unwinnable whipsaw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Being & falling ill Death and dying Examples of succumbingsuccumbing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The intuition is that healthier workers have greater productivity, since workers are more able to work diligently, for longer hours, without succumbing to debilitation. In the absence of sudden death affected rabbits deteriorate and progressively lose body weight before eventually succumbing to the disease. Both men are perceived as having little moral fibre, and this is signified by their succumbing to women. But, how can we make sense of the possibility of the invention of traditions without succumbing to the comprehensive rationalist or hyper-rationalist temptation? An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators. He chides grammarians for abandoning their mission to describe language and succumbing instead to the lures of linguistic engineering and grammatical prescription. Hyperactivated spermatozoa are short-lived, succumbing rapidly to metabolic exhaustion. Or are tribes and tribal culture succumbing to the urbanization and nation-building processes? Each of the ends - overcoming, coping with or succumbing to illness - intersects with the means of resistance, endurance or acceptance. Unfortunately, in this veritable principia economica, we begin to see the historian succumbing to the lure of meta-theory. These fictions are truthful to reality and useful to human beings insofar as they enable them t o realize, through artistic illusions, the absolute metaphysical truth without succumbing to it. Chimneys fell due to the strength of the wind and lead gutters had to be replaced after succumbing to the weight of snow. While this choice may eliminate fear of vertigo, it sometimes leaves the author open to the charge of succumbing to the occasionally dubious authority of her primary and secondary sources. Results were expressed in terms of odds ratios of failure (succumbing to the well) for the treatment of interest relative to the reference state or treatment. Benda accused contemporary writers and intellectuals of betraying their high artistic calling, and the universal values for which they ought to speak, and succumbing to partisanship. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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