yield

1. V-I If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them. 屈服[正式]

Carmen yielded to general pressure and grudgingly took the child to a specialist. 卡門屈服於普遍的壓力，不得已帶孩子去看了位?？拼蠓?。

2. V-T If you yield something that you have control of or responsibility for, you allow someone else to have control or responsibility for it. 放棄[正式]

He may yield control. 他可能放棄控制權(quán)。

3. V-I If a moving person or a vehicle yields, they slow down in order to allow other people or vehicles to pass in front of them. 讓行[美國英語]

When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers. 進(jìn)入滑道或開始下滑時(shí)，給其他滑雪者們讓行。

...examples of common signs like No Smoking and Yield. …像“禁止吸菸”和“讓行”這樣的常見標(biāo)志例子。

4. V-I If something yields, it breaks or moves position because force or pressure has been put on it. (因受力或受壓而) 破碎; 斷裂; 移位

He reached the massive door of the barn and pushed. It yielded. 他夠著了畜棚厚重的大門推了推。門開了。

5. V-T If an area of land yields a particular amount of a crop, this is the amount that is produced. You can also say that a number of animals yield a particular amount of meat. 産

Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion. 去年40萬英畝的土地出産了價(jià)值17.5億美元的糧食。

6. N-COUNT A yield is the amount of food produced on an area of land or by a number of animals. 産量

...improving the yield of the crop. …增加辳作物的産量。

7. V-T If a tax or investment yields an amount of money or profit, this money or profit is obtained from it. 産生 (收益)[商業(yè)]

It yielded a profit of at least $36 million. 它帶來了至少三千六百萬美元的利潤。

8. N-COUNT A yield is the amount of money or profit produced by an investment. (投資的) 利潤; 收益[商業(yè)]

...a yield of 4%. …4%的收益。

The high yields available on the dividend shares made them attractive to private investors. 股息股能獲得的高收益使它們對私人投資者們很有吸引力。

9. V-T If something yields a result or piece of information, it produces it. 産生 (結(jié)果); 制造 (消息)

This research has been in progress since 1961 and has yielded a great number of positive results. 這項(xiàng)研究自1961年以來一直在開展，已經(jīng)取得了大量的積極成果。