上周四巴西知名运动员“球王”贝利去世，终年82岁。请看来自网络的报道：

Growing up in Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento so hated the nonsensical nickname his grade school playmates used to tease him that he would fight anyone who dared call him “Pelé.”

Before he had become an adult, however, the boy had turned the taunt into a word that came to define soccer greatness, embarking on a career that would produce more goals, more World Cup titles and more breathtaking moments than any other.

The soccer player who rose from an impoverished slum to become the most famous athlete in the world died Thursday at age 82. Never far from the game he so loved, Pelé succumbed to multiple organ failure as a result of colon cancer, according to the São Paulo medical center where he had been hospitalized since late November.

报道中的succumb to就是“死于”，这个词的本意是 “屈服于”。例如：

My grandmother wanted to make one final trip to Kyoto before succumbing to old age.

在年老身故前我祖母的愿望是再去京都旅游一次。