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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Anyone who intends to domesticate and breed wildlife under special state protection shall obtain a license.
  驯养繁殖国家重点保护野生动物的，应当持有许可证。
• 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。
• 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。