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
Collins.1 / BNC.37335 / COCA.26128
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。
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。
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。
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 - 驯化，培育（植物或农作物）
to grow plants or crops for human use - 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- Some men are very hard to domesticate.
有些男人很难做好家务活。
- Some men are very hard to domesticate.
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.- We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。 - ...sheep, cattle, horses, and other domesticated animals.
羊、牛、马及其他驯养的动物
- We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
英英释义
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
- overcome the wildness of
- He tames lions for the circus
- reclaim falcons
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- domesticate oats
- tame the soil
双语例句
- 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。 - We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。 - It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
有些野兽是可以驯养的。 - For the humans, there is a crucial and durable method is to make a definition of something that to acknowledge the world, to domesticate the nature and finally to living harmonically with it.
对人类而言，认识世界、驯化自然到与之和谐共生，一个关键而古老的方法就是对事物下定义。 - With regard to the treatment for wastewater which contents 3% methanol, domesticate bacteria biochemical treatment and gas producer treatment are both introduced.
简介了用驯化菌种生化处理和用固定床煤气发生炉处理含3%甲醇废水的技术。 - Several species of ant domesticate a kind of insect called an aphid.
蚂蚁驯养的几种动物中有一种就是蚜虫。 - 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。 - 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。 - He wished to stock their larder first, and domesticate those which they might take later.
他打算先抓来充实他们的食品室，以后有工夫再捉来驯养。 - One is to breed salt tolerance into conventional crops such as wheat and tomato, the other is to domesticate wild, salt tolerant plant, called halophyte for use as crop.
海水农业有两条途径，其一为培育耐盐传统作物如小麦和番茄，另一为驯化野生耐盐植物，即盐生植物，使之作物化。