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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

        • Natural saline-alkali water was added into the water of desalinated prawn ponds to domesticate desalinated juvenile white legged shrimp ( Litopenaeus vannamei), in order to study the technique of cultivating prawn at carbonate saline-alkali waters in northeast China.
          以淡化虾塘水添加天然盐碱水为试验用水驯化南美白对虾幼虾,探讨东北地区碳酸盐类盐碱水养殖对虾的技术。
        • 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。
        • We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
          我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。
        • After the agriculture revolution, the human beings became the producers and they got all or most of the food by using the natural resource-the land to grow plants and domesticate animals.
          到了农业革命时期,人类便成为生产者,即利用自然界的资源&土地,靠栽培植物和驯养动物获取全部或大部食物。
        • While according to the analysis of the inversion rate of Fe~ ( 2+) and the precipitation rate of Fe in solution, the ore-bearing 9K cultures more benefit to domesticate the Thiobacillus.
          而从Fe2+的转化速率及Fe的沉淀率上分析,含矿石的9K培养基更有利于驯化铁杆菌;
        • 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。
        • According to the analysis of adjusting the sour times, range and the degree of pH value descent, the ore-bearing 9K+ S cultures more benefit to domesticate the Ferrobacillus.
          从调酸次数、幅度及pH下降的程度上分析,含矿石的9K+S培养基更有利于驯化硫杆菌;
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • I plant the potatoes, I weed the garden, I domesticate the species.
          我种植马铃薯,替花园除草,驯养各种动植物。