英语词汇succumb怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

succumb

səkʌm  səˈkʌm 

Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense succumbs, present participle succumbing, past tense , past participle succumbed

1 VERB 屈从于，屈服于，抵挡不住(诱惑或压力) If you succumb to temptation 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. 屈从于，屈服于，抵挡不住(诱惑或压力) [formal]

Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette. [VERB + to]

不要经不住诱惑，只抽一支烟也不行。
The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure. [VERB + to]

首相说他的国家永远都不会屈服于压迫。

SYN surrender (to), yield (to), submit (to), give in (to)

2 VERB 感染，死于(疾病) If you succumb to an illness, you become affected by it or die from it. 感染，死于(疾病) [formal]

A few years later, Katya succumbed to cancer in London. [VERB to noun]

几年后，卡佳因患癌症在伦敦病逝。
I was determined not to succumb to the virus. [VERB to noun]

我坚决不向病毒屈服。

SYN catch, contract, fall victim to, die from

Word Link

cumb ≈ lying down : incumbent, recumbent, succumb

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