v. 驯化，驯服；制服，控制；开垦，开辟（tame 的过去式和过去分词）
tame /teɪm/ CET4 TEM4 [ taming tamed tamer tamest tames ]
形容词 A tame animal or bird is one that is not afraid of humans. 驯服的
They never became tame; they would run away if you approached them.
它们从没有被驯服，如果你靠近，它们就跑开了。
形容词 If you say that something or someone is tame, you are criticizing them for being weak and uninteresting, rather than forceful or shocking. 软弱的; 乏味的
These ideas may seem tame today, but they were inflammatory in his time.
这些想法今天看来也许是平淡乏味的，但在他那个时代却是很有煽动性的。
及物动词 If someone tames a wild animal or bird, they train it not to be afraid of humans and to do what they say. 驯化
The Amazons were believed to have been the first to tame horses.
亚马逊人被认为是最早驯化了马的人。
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
tame the soil
同义词： domesticate / cultivate / naturalize / naturalise
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
He tames lions for the circus
同义词： domesticate / domesticize / domesticise / reclaim
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog
同义词： domesticate
flat and uninspiring
very restrained or quiet
a tame Christmas party ; she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed
brought from wildness into a domesticated state
tame animals ; fields of tame blueberries
同义词： tamed
驯服
甲基叔戊基醚
驯化
Scientists used to believe that people tamed cats to catch mice and protect the grain.
过去科学家们认为人们驯服猫是为了捉老鼠和保护谷物。
He found a half-drowned young crow another time an' he brought it home, too, an' tamed it.
又一次，他发现了一只差点淹死的小乌鸦，他也把它带回家，驯服了它。
Lions can never be completely tamed.
狮子永远不能被完全驯化。
Her love songs also seem more adult in subject, like the title track to the new album, "Can't Be Tamed."
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But before he can enter the city and meet Gilgamesh he has to be tamed.
但是在入城之前，他必须变得驯服。
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Like a wild horse he must be caught, tamed and domesticated.
就像野马要被捕捉,驯服,驯化一样
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and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes with out blinking once.
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Cyrus covers a song by the metal band Poison on "Can't Be Tamed."
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She either - depending on your politics - "tamed the unions" or "made war on the unions".
With it, anything above around 3KHz is gently tamed, but not to the point where it feels detrimental.
There is hope that there might be educational reform, and that radical preachers might be tamed.