handtame

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别名

hand-tame

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cause (someone or something) to become accustomed to being handled

    So now that you've decided to handtame your canary, just where do you start?

adj.
  1. 1.

    Tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; (by extension) mild; meek; humble; docile

    I badly wanted a little more time to work on training them, but simply couldn't find it — so while they grew up friendly and confident, you couldn't exactly called them handtame.

词源

From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).

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