Think of something pressing down and the thing underneath choosing not to fight it. A hand presses a mattress and the mattress lets the hand in. That is the whole word. The two meanings are the same movement with a different thing underneath: once it is a surface, once it is a person, and in both cases the pressure comes from outside and is allowed through.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces yielding to Middle English ȝeldinge, from Old English ġieldan ('to yield, pay'), equivalent to yield + -ing.
Wiktionary 記 yielding 來自中古英語 ȝeldinge，源頭是古英語 ġieldan（讓出、支付），構詞上是 yield ＋ -ing。「別人要，就給出去」這個古老的意思，跟今天「受壓就讓開」的畫面接得上。
Wiktionary entry 'yielding' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:830909817): 'From Middle English ȝeldinge ... from Old English ġieldan (to yield, pay), equivalent to yield + -ing.'
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Yieldingname
- 1
A surname.
yieldingadj詞源 1/ˈjiːldɪŋ/
- 1
Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
yieldingnoun詞源 2/ˈjiːldɪŋ/
- 1
A concession.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。