Succumb

(verb.) be fatally overwhelmed.

欧文整理

• Yet Caroline refused tamely to succumb. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I felt that I must soon succumb, nor was there any retreating now that I had gone this far. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• After a while they succumb; they die. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The look was far worse to resist than the frantic strain: only an idiot, however, would have succumbed now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Lady Steyne, after the music scene, succumbed before Becky, and perhaps was not disinclined to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The inventor of the detective-fever had completely succumbed to that irresistible malady. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• And so they held out through the age of hardship between the Mesozoic and Cainozoic ages, to which most of the true reptiles succumbed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The bird succumbs to gas earlier than a man and thus indicates a dangerous condition of the atmosphere. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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