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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

        • 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。
        • 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。
        • A few months ago, we wrote about a Belarusian family that has managed to domesticate a pack of wild wolves and are now raising them as pets.
          几个月前,有一个白俄罗斯家庭,成功驯养一群野生狼后当做宠物来喂养。
        • 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。
        • 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;
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。