succumb是什么意思

succumb

英 [s?'k?m] 美 [s?'k?m]

1. sub- => suc- "down" + cumb-.
2. => submit, sink down, lie under.

succumb 屈服，屈從

suc-,在下，-cumb,躺，詞源同 succubus,recumbent.即躺在下面，引申比喻義屈服，屈從。

succumb: succumb: [15] Someone who succumbs to something is etymologically ‘lying down under’ it. The word comes via Old French succomber from Latin succumbere, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘under’ and -cumbere ‘lie’. This verbal element also produced English incumbent and recumbent, and the non-nasalized version of its stem lies behind covey, incubate, incubus, and succubus.
=> covey, incubate, incumbent, recumbent
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 sub "down" (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.

2. The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.: 首相說他的國家永遠都不會屈服于壓迫。

3. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette.: 不要經不住誘惑，只抽一支煙也不行。

4. Malnourished children are more likely to succumb to infections.: 營養不良的兒童更有可能死于感染.

5. He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions — to succumb, as he put it, to a siren song.: 他說美國不愿意參與僅僅解決部分問題的方案的探索——按照他的說法，這種做法就是向誘惑低頭。