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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

        • We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
          我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • Thanks to where they were, Europe and its North American offshoots had plants and animals that were easy to domesticate, a low burden of disease, and natural resources that supported industrialisation.
          由于它们(得天独厚)的地理位置,欧洲和它的美国分支拥有易于驯养和栽培的动植物、较轻的疾病负担以及有利于工业化的自然资源。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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;
        • In order to improve the efficiency of biogas fermentation of cotton stalks, it is necessary to pretreat cotton stalks, and to screen and domesticate high active inocula for biogas fermentation.
          为了提高棉秆的沼气发酵效率,有必要对棉秆原料进行预处理,同时筛选驯化活性较高的接种物进行沼气发酵。