succumb的意思|succumb的解释-里氏词典

succumb [sә'kʌm]

vi. 屈从, 屈服, 死

succumb

[ verb ]

consent reluctantly

<verb.communication>

be fatally overwhelmed

<verb.stative>

yield

Succumb \Suc*cumb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Succumbed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Succumbing}.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in
comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See {Incumbent},
{Cubit}.]
To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb
under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Without fresh insights of this kind from today's choreographers, ballet in the U.S. must surely succumb to the inanition that has overtaken it in Europe and the Soviet Union.
To an extent, Canadians themselves are to blame for the rampant Americanization because they succumb to U.S. attractions.
Across the Atlantic, in Minnesota's lush Red River Valley, sugar-beet farmers similarly would succumb if not for the help of the U.S. government.
'It's all too easy to succumb to well-targeted adverts,' she says. BT is just one of the 100 companies that bought Bounty's list of new mothers earlier this year.
It's a wonder that it took so long for a failed ideology to succumb to reality.
Pressure to succumb to these temptations must be resisted.
When Formula One racing cars were allowed to carry only a fixed amount of fuel to get them through a race, many used to succumb to dry tanks in the closing stages. The answer to improving fuel economy was engine oil.
He urged the Senate not to succumb to "a lust for revenge." Experts say this year's drought isn't as bad as last year's, but that's little consolation for farmers like Verdun Schauer.
But do we have to succumb so early?
Every year, I vow that I will not be caught again, but I succumb to temptation.
For her part, she remains an unswervingly believer in nuclear deterrent and sees herself as a brake on any Western temptation to succumb to Gorbachev's charm and drop its nuclear guard.
In the interview, Mr. Wolf said he was convinced UAL would succumb to a takeover following a $5.4 billion bid from Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis.
Mr Gordon Binder, chairman of Amgen, is clear about why the biggest US biotechnology company is not about to succumb to an unwanted takeover. 'There's never been an unfriendly takeover in the biotech industry.
Both Johnson and Keynes were among the many intellectuals who did not succumb to the desire to push others around, a desire that can also affect intellectuals on what most would call the right.
Inflation is roaring ahead at an annual rate of more than 100% and could worsen if monetary authorities succumb to the pre-election temptation to pump up the economy.
"It is an illusion that Iran believes Iraq will succumb to threats of attacking the cities," Shaaban said in an interview with Baghdad's official Ath-Thawra newspaper.
Some businessmen succumb to the pressures.
They usually succumb to a number of illnesses, and sometimes die, at an early age. An even more recently uncovered illness, LADII, involves a selectin deficiency.
His life may not have turned out to be what he wanted it to be, or what his fans wanted, but he didn't succumb to self-pity.
That regulation was intended to protect buyers who succumb to high-pressure tactics on the part of door-to-door sales people.
Then they are observed in the tanks outside to ensure they can float and will not succumb to hypothermia.
Among its uses, Primaxin is expected to extend the lives of young cystic fibrosis patients, who ultimately succumb to intractable lung infections.

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