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yielding

/yeel-ding/US // ˈyil dɪŋ //UK // (ˈjiːldɪŋ) //

屈服,柔顺的,屈服的,柔顺

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
    • : tending to give way, especially under pressure; flexible; supple; pliable: a yielding mattress.
    • : producing a yield; productive.

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Examples

  • Mechanization drove down labor costs, which made marginally yielding lands profitable.

  • On its first day of trading, Alibaba shares were up 38 percent, yielding a market capitalization of $213 billion.

  • One such pessimist was the Mayor* of the town: A little while later, yielding to his vapors, he committed suicide.

  • With surveillance footage yielding more and more details, police say the search area is continually expanding.

  • In the case of Flight 17 the wreck is already yielding a lot of information.

  • They are yielding new insights into the way the shock front propagates in these really complex environments.

  • Yielding to the advice of his friends, he put on it a price the amount of which abashed him.

  • More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.

  • My own yielding folly alone is to blame, and I shall take shame to myself for ever.

  • A trap-like compound, with somewhat the aspect of serpentine, but yielding with difficulty to the knife.

  • Many a time and oft had she pleaded, with tears, to the remorseless girl who looked so soft and yielding.