succumb
succumb 英 [səˈkʌm] 美 [səˈkʌm]
vi. 屈服；死；被压垮
进行时:succumbing 过去式:succumbed 过去分词:succumbed 第三人称单数:succumbs 名词复数:succumbs
- Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.
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- vi. 屈服；死；被压垮
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1. And yet I succumb to watching it.
然而，我却需要看它，向它屈服。
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2. Whatever you do, don't succumb to it.
无论你做什么，都不要屈服于它。
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3. But why did a once-mighty civilisation succumb to the West?
但为什么，一个一度强大的文明竟会屈服于西方呢？
- succumb (v.) late 15c., from Old French succomber "succumb, die, lose one's (legal) case," and directly from Latin succumbere "submit, surrender, yield, be overcome; sink down; lie under; cohabit with," from assimilated form of sub "under, beneath" (see sub-) + -cumbere "take a reclining position," related to cubare "lie down" (see cubicle). Originally transitive; sense of "sink under pressure" is first recorded c. 1600. As a euphemism for "to die," from 1849. Related: Succumbed; succumbing.
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