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。
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
- Objective: to do domesticate cultivation of Asarum heteropodies Fr.
目的：驯化栽培北细辛、华细辛。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
有些野兽是可以驯养的。 - They couldn't domesticate them, so they destory them.
人们不能驯服野马，所以就毁掉它们。 - 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。 - 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。