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domesticate

英 [dəˈmestɪkeɪt]

美 [dəˈmestɪkeɪt]

v.  驯养,驯化(动物); 驯化,培育(植物或农作物); 使精于家务; 使喜爱家居

过去分词:domesticated 现在分词:domesticating 过去式:domesticated 第三人称单数:domesticates 

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同义词辨析

tamedomesticatetrain【导航词义:驯养】

tamev. 驯服,驯养
〔辨析〕
指驯化野生动物。
〔例证〕
His job is to tame elephants.
他的工作是驯象。
Horses are easy to tame while tigers are hard to tame.
驯马容易,驯虎难。
Emma tames lions for the circus.
埃玛为马戏团驯狮。
domesticatev. 驯养,驯化
〔辨析〕
指驯养动物为人类做事,或使其作为宠物和人类生活在一起。
〔例证〕
It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
有些野兽是可以驯养的。
He learned to domesticate goats for milk, and even a parrot for a pet.
他学会了驯养野羊以获取羊奶,甚至还驯养出一只鹦鹉作宠物。
trainv. 训练
〔辨析〕
指训练动物做某事或做出正确的举动。
〔例证〕
The policemen trained their dogs to detect drugs.
警察训练警犬探查毒品。
I want to train my cat to roll over.
我想训练我的猫打滚。

牛津词典

    verb

    • 驯养,驯化(动物)
      to make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans
      1. 驯化,培育(植物或农作物)
        to grow plants or crops for human use
        1. 使精于家务;使喜爱家居
          to make sb good at cooking, caring for a house, etc.; to make sb enjoy home life
          1. Some men are very hard to domesticate.
            有些男人很难做好家务活。

        柯林斯词典

        • VERB 驯养;驯化
          When peopledomesticatewild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets.
          1. We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
            我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。
          2. ...sheep, cattle, horses, and other domesticated animals.
            羊、牛、马及其他驯养的动物

        英英释义

        verb

        • make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
          1. The horse was domesticated a long time ago
          2. The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog
          Synonym:tame
        • overcome the wildness of
          1. He tames lions for the circus
          2. reclaim falcons
          Synonym:domesticizedomesticisereclaimtame
        • adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
          1. domesticate oats
          2. tame the soil
          Synonym:cultivatenaturalizenaturalisetame

        双语例句

        • Eventually Crusoe learns to plant crops, domesticate goats for milk, and even train a parrot for a pet.
          终于,鲁滨逊学会了种植粮食作物,驯养野羊获取羊奶,甚至还训练出一只鹦鹉作宠物。
        • While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won't try.
          一些比我聪明的弟兄们试图给他改个名字,以便驯化驯服他,我没有这么做。
        • The bases were provided for development of culture and domesticate traditional Chinese medicine according to status quo of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Wulan county.
          通过了解乌兰县中药村现状,为以后野生驯化、发展乌兰县中药材种植提供前提条件。
        • At last, the thesis draws the conclusion that different cultural demands at different time tend to guide translators 'strategies to domesticate or foreignize.
          最后,得出本文结论:不同时期的文化需求决定了译者不同的翻译策略。
        • And also not limited to the old law, active new garden species and domesticate plants, explore new landscaping species, to enrich the landscape garden plants in our province.
          并且还要不寓于旧法,积极开展新的园林树种的引种和驯化工作,发掘新的园林绿化树种,丰富我省城市园林的植物景观。
        • Objective: to do domesticate cultivation of Asarum heteropodies Fr.
          目的:驯化栽培北细辛、华细辛。
        • Humans started to domesticate wild cows about eight to ten thousand years ago.
          大约八千&一万年前人类开始驯化野牛。
        • They couldn't domesticate them, so they destory them.
          人们不能驯服野马,所以就毁掉它们。
        • It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
          有些野兽是可以驯养的。
        • Many thousand years ago people learned how to domesticate animals.
          数千年以前人们就学会了饲养动物。