词汇精选：yield的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
产量；收获量；收益 [C,U]
例句：
Wheat yields doubled last year.
去年小麦的产量翻了一番。
例句：
The current yield on municipal bonds is 10%.
当前市政债券的利润是百分之十。
v.
出产，生产出（作物等） [T]
例句：
This orchard yields apples and pears.
这座果园出产苹果和梨。
例句：
Mines yield ores.
矿山出矿石。
产生（效果、收益等）；带来 [T]
例句：
Talks between the two sides yielded no results.
双方的会谈没有结果。
例句：
It's an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits.
这是非常冒险但可以带来巨大利润的投资。
给予，让与；同意 [T]
例句：
He yielded his consent to the project.
他同意了这个项目。
被迫让出，放弃 [T]
例句：
However, neither country was prepared to yield their respective claims over the territory.
然而，两个国家都不准备放弃各自对该领土的所有权。
例句：
Don't yield your purpose.
别放弃你的目标。
使屈服；使顺从 [T]
例句：
Are you going to yield yourself prisoner?
你打算束手就擒吗？
例句：
He didn' t yield himself to his rival.
他没有向对手屈服。
出产；（投资等）生息 [I]
例句：
This farm yields well.
这个农场产量很高。
屈服；投降；顺从 [I]
例句：
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
要奋斗，要探索，要有所发现，而不要屈服。
例句：
The enemy yielded.
敌人投降了。
失去优先地位；让权；让路 [I]
例句：
Vehicles yield to those with the right of way-particularly pedestrians.
车辆会让路给有权先行者——尤其是行人。
例句：
You must yield to traffic from the left.
你必须让左边来的车辆先走。
（在力量或重压下）垮掉；倒塌（to） [I]
二、词义辨析：
crop,harvest,yield
这些名词均含有“收成”之意。crop普通用词，侧重指农作物一次收割或一季的收成。harvest主要指农作物或水果的收获量，有时也指收割的行为。yield指生产物，农作物的总产量。
三、相关短语：
yield up
放弃,投降;出产,提供;发现,揭开
四、参考例句：
Mines yield ores.
矿山出矿石。
trap|yield|apply
They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.
Don't yield your purpose.
别放弃你的目标。
At last they yield to our advice.
他们终于听从了我们的劝告。
We'll never yield to external pressure.
我们决不向外界压力屈服。
Crop yield correlates closely with annual rainfall.
农作物的收成与年降雨量有密切关系。
There's a yield sign over there.
那儿有个等让标志。
What does the yield curve look like?
收益曲线是怎样的呢？
Are you going to yield yourself prisoner?
你打算束手就擒吗？
We will never yield to force.
我们决不会向暴力屈服。
