Tame
[teɪm]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) correct by punishment or discipline.
(adj.) flat and uninspiring .
(adj.) brought from wildness into a domesticated state; 'tame animals'; 'fields of tame blueberries' .
(adj.) very restrained or quiet; 'a tame Christmas party'; 'she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed' .
手打:维吉尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
(superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
(superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
(superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
(a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
(a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
亚历克斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Domesticated, domestic, mild, gentle, docile, not wild.[2]. Subdued, crushed, submissive.[3]. Spiritless, dull, flat, feeble, lean, vapid, insipid, jejune, barren, languid, prosing, prosy, prosaic, uninteresting, poor.
v. a. [1]. Domesticate, make tame, make docile.[2]. Subdue, repress, conquer, overcome, overthrow, subjugate.
編輯:路易斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Domesticated, reclaimed, tamed, subjugated, broken, gentle, mild, docile, meek,spiritless, tedious, dull, flat
ANT:Undomesticated, unreclaimed, untamed, unbroken, savage, wild, fierce, spirited,animated, ferine, interesting, exciting, stirring, lively
安吉拉校對
解釋/意思:
adj. having lost native wildness and shyness: domesticated: gentle: spiritless: without vigour: dull flat uninspiring: wonted accustomed.—v.t. to reduce to a domestic state: to make gentle: to reclaim: to civilise.—ns. Tāmabil′ity Tāmeabli′ity Tām′ableness Tāme′ableness.—adjs. Tām′able Tāme′able that may be tamed; Tāme′less.—n. Tāme′lessness.—adv. Tāme′ly.—ns. Tāme′ness; Tā′mer one who tames.
艾玛手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- That may be true, but it is no reason for being bullied by it into a tame admission that what has always been must always be. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- How did Mr. Jaggers tame her, Wemmick? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Something to tame first, and teach afterwards; to break in, and then to fondle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- See, Jo, how tame it is. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Yes; but not only that, said Wemmick, she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below! Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Marriage is a taming thing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- At once powerful and elusive, it remained for Professor Morse to capture this wild steed, and, taming it, place it in the permanent service of man. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
整理:莱斯利