yield /ˈji(ə)ld/
 生產量,投資收益(vt.)生產,給予,同意,被迫放棄,放縱(vi.)出產,屈服,投降


 yield
 成品; 成品率; 合格率; 輸出; 產生; 得到; 屈服; 良率 YLD


 yield
 產出


 Yield n. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.  “A goodly yield of fruit doth bring.”

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 Yield v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.]
 1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
    To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.   --Chaucer.
    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.   --Gen. iv. 12.
 2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.  “Vines yield nectar.”
    [He] makes milch kine yield blood.   --Shak.
    The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.   --Job xxiv. 5.
 3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
    And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.   --Shak.
    Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.   --Milton.
 4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
    I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.   --Milton.
 5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
 6. To give a reward to; to bless.  [Obs.]
 Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
 And the gods yield you for 't.   --Shak.
    God yield thee, and God thank ye.   --Beau. & Fl.
 To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, To yield the ghost, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost, or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost.
    One calmly yields his willing breath.   --Keble.


 Yield, v. i.
 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
    He saw the fainting Grecians yield.   --Dryden.
 2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
 3. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
 Will ye relent,
 And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?   --Shak.
 4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
 Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
 The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?   --Pope.


 yield
      n 1: production of a certain amount [syn: output]
      2: an amount of a product [syn: fruit]
      3: the income arising from land or other property; "the average
         return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, proceeds,
         take, takings, payoff]
      4: the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created
         (usually within a given period of time); "production was
         up in the second quarter" [syn: output, production]
      v 1: be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble";
           "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
           [syn: give, afford]
      2: end resistance, especially under pressure or force; "The
         door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" [syn:
          give way]
      3: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This
         year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate
         renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, return,
          give, generate]
      4: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control
         of another [syn: concede, cede, grant]
      5: give in, as to influence or pressure [syn: relent, soften]
         [ant: stand]
      6: move in order to make room for someone for something; "The
         park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the
         crowd" [syn: move over, give way, give, ease up]
      7: bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory"
         [syn: give, bring about]
      8: be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: concede,
          grant]
      9: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb] [ant: survive]
      10: bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this
          savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: pay, bear]
      11: be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material
          doesn't give" [syn: give]
      12: cease opposition; stop fighting
      13: consent reluctantly [syn: give in, succumb, {knuckle
          under, buckle under]