Domesticate

(verb.) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; 'The horse was domesticated a long time ago'; 'The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog'.

(verb.) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; 'He tames lions for the circus'; 'reclaim falcons'.

(verb.) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; 'domesticate oats'; 'tame the soil'.

巴罗录入

• It became necessary therefore, that for a time I should domesticate myself at Rome. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Could we domesticate a cub of this wild beast, and not fear its growth and maturity? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They had no properly domesticated animals at all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Neolithic man had domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This does not occur, or only in a very slight degree, with our domesticated productions, which have long been exposed to fluctuating conditions. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was never domesticated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whether they tamed and domesticated the horse is still an open question. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He th ought that by collecting all facts that bore on the variation of plants and animals, wild or domesticated, light might be thrown on the whole subjec t. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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