| 单词 | tame |
| 释义 | Related topics: Animalstame1 /teɪm/ adjective 1 HBAa tame animal or bird is not wild any longer, because it has been trained to live with people 〔动物〕驯化的，由人驯养的 OPP wild tame elephants 驯养的大象 →4 See picture of 见图 FIERCE2 informalBORING dull and disappointing 平淡的；枯燥乏味的 Most of the criticism has been pretty tame. 评论的大部分内容很乏味。 I decided that teaching was too tame for me. 我最终认为教书对我来说太枯燥。3 [only before noun] British English used to describe a person who is willing to do what other people ask, even if it is slightly dishonest 听使唤的；温顺的 If you have a tame doctor, he might give you a sick note. 要是你的医生好说话，他可能会给你开个病假条。 —tamely adverb —tameness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpustame• By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.• It had all been very tame.• Seen in comparison with the preceding axial age, the Hellenistic age is tame and conservative.• These little fishes become quite tame and will respond at feeding time by rushing to their food like a litter of puppies.• Gardens contrived to divert the power of botanical growth into the tame artifacts of domesticated crops.• The jokes, when they do come, are rather tame but still funny.• The '70s series now seem tame by today's standards.• Not your weasel-faced tame magic, but root-and-branch magic, the old magic.• In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken, ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits.Related topics: Animalstame2 verb [transitive] 1 REDUCEto reduce the power or strength of something and prevent it from causing trouble 制服，控制；驾驭 The prime minister managed to tame the trade unions. 首相设法把工会掌控住了。2 HBATEACHto train a wild animal to obey you and not to attack people 驯服〔野生动物〕，使驯化 SYN domesticate The Asian elephant can be tamed and trained. 亚洲象可以被驯服并加以训练。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpustame• Don Bradman, the catalyst of the affair, was only temporarily tamed, as his Test batting average of 56.57 testified.• Unlike her former co-star, Antonio Banderas, Abril has not been tamed by Hollywood.• He had fought a maddening, 24-hour battle against a river that California agriculture had tamed for more than a half century.• Statistics show that rent control laws haven't tamed inflation.• Where it should have tried harder, however, is with taming mechanical noise levels.• Is there a product to tame my hair?• These actions threw the economy into a recession, but also tamed the inflationary monster.• Children and, later, teenagers have to learn to put a brake on their impulses, to tame their desires.Origin tame1 Old English tamtame1 adjectivetame2 verbChinese any bird Corpus is wild or a animal tame not |
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