tame

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a. 驯服的, 柔顺的, 被开垦的, 顺从的, 乏味的, 平淡的 vt. 驯养, 驯服, 制服, 失去锋芒 vi. 变得驯服

发音

US /teɪm/

词形变化

tames 三单 taming 现在分词 tamed 过去式 tamed 过去分词 tamer 比较级 tamer tamest tamest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

驯服的；平淡的；乏味的；顺从的

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

    驯服

    驯化

    及物

    He tamed the wild horse.

  2. 2.

    To become tame or domesticated.

    被驯化

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To make submissive or docile.

    及物

    The governor tames the engine.

  4. 4.

    To take control of something that is unruly.

    及物

    Police have to tame the riots.

  5. 5.

    To make gentle or meek.

    及物

    Guard dogs need to be tamed so that they know who not to attack.

  6. 1.

    To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

    英国 方言 废旧
adj. B2
  1. 1.

    Accustomed to human contact.

  2. 2.

    Docile or tranquil towards humans.

    The lion was quite tame.

  3. 3.

    Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.

    废旧
  5. 5.

    Not exciting.

    驯服的

    This party is too tame for me.

    For a thriller, that film was really tame.

  6. 6.

    Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

  7. 7.

    Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

    数学

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

reclaim moderate cultivate subdue domesticate naturalize tone down chasten domesticise domesticize

上位词 5

change alter adapt accommodate modify

下位词 2

break break in

近义相关 4

reclaim domesticate domesticise domesticize
形容词

同义词 2

meek tamed

反义词 1

wild

近义相关 10

broken gentle domestic tamed cultivated subdued docile domesticated broken in unexciting

参见 3

quiet manipulable tractable

相关短语

a wild goose never laid a tame egg pudding and tame

词源

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”). The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).

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