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】

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
  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

• 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。
• It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
  有些野兽是可以驯养的。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Celluloses are some of the most abundant renewable resources in the world, and xylose is one of the main hydrolyzates from celluloses. Therefore, to domesticate oleaginous micro-organisms for the efficient utilization of micro-organisms has guiding significance to the development of oil industry.
  纤维素类物质是地球上最丰富的可再生资源之一，而木糖是纤维素类物质的主要水解产物之一，因此驯化油脂微生物高效利用木糖生产油脂对油脂工业的开发具有重要的指导意义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。