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domesticated

/duh-mes-ti-keyt/US // dəˈmɛs tɪˌkeɪt //UK // (dəˈmɛstɪˌkeɪt) //

驯化的,驯化,驯养的,驯化了的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

    • : to convert to domestic uses; tame.
    • : to tame, especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.
    • : to adapt so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings.
    • : to accustom to household life or affairs.
    • : to take for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
    • : to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like: to domesticate radical ideas.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing.

    • : to be domestic.

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Examples

  • The results suggest that people domesticated dogs sometime before 23,000 years ago in Siberia, where isolated groups of wolves and people were struggling to survive the Last Glacial Maximum.

  • Those barks were a useful reminder that although he is domesticated, he is an animal.

  • By retaining a hint of wildness that the modern world has long buried, dogs — these domesticated wolves — represent a source of forgotten knowledge.

  • Though Vulpes vulpes, the silver fox, is distantly related to wolves and dogs, it had never before been domesticated.

  • The fact is, those are very tame and domesticated versions of a full-on inquiry into origins.

  • Cats were domesticated roughly ten thousand years before cat videos.

  • We sink into the domesticated blandness of our interchangeable, modern-era selves.

  • They projected sexual charisma, to be sure, but it was a charisma that was tamed and domesticated for their youngest female fans.

  • He compared the sizes of domesticated animals everywhere he went.

  • The Cat, the little Tyger of our island, whose natural home is the forest, is equally domesticated and caressed.

  • Now and then a blue pigeon, like the ancestral form, crops up in a pure breed of domesticated birds.

  • The Paca very easily becomes domesticated, and is very gentle and tractable, unless when much irritated.

  • A panther is spoken of by an English lady, Mrs. Bowdich, who resided for some time in Africa, as being thoroughly domesticated.

  • Lady Jane Grey is a gentle, domesticated cat of many admirable qualities and her name seems very appropriate.