Domesticate
[də'mestɪkeɪt] or [də'mɛstɪket]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; 'The horse was domesticated a long time ago'; 'The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog'.
(verb.) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; 'He tames lions for the circus'; 'reclaim falcons'.
(verb.) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; 'domesticate oats'; 'tame the soil'.
巴罗錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
(a.) To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
(a.) To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
汉娜錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Make domestic, accustom to keep at home.[2]. Tame, attach to the house.
伊莱扎錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It became necessary therefore, that for a time I should domesticate myself at Rome. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Could we domesticate a cub of this wild beast, and not fear its growth and maturity? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- They had no properly domesticated animals at all. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Neolithic man had domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This does not occur, or only in a very slight degree, with our domesticated productions, which have long been exposed to fluctuating conditions. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It was never domesticated. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whether they tamed and domesticated the horse is still an open question. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He th ought that by collecting all facts that bore on the variation of plants and animals, wild or domesticated, light might be thrown on the whole subjec t. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
編輯:斯坦利