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domestication

/duh-mes-ti-key-shuhn/US // dəˌmɛs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən //

驯化,驯养,驯服,归化

Related Words

discipline纪律,管教,惩戒,纪律性instruction指示,指令,教学,指导workout锻炼,锻炼身体,训练,练习practice练习,做法,惯例,实践schooling学校教育,学校教学drill训练,训练演练,训练演习teaching教学,教育,教导,教education教育,教育类,教育学,教育事业guidance指导,指南,指导意见,指引exercise练习,锻炼,运动,演习coaching教练,辅导,教练员,辅导员control控制,管制,控制权,操控development发展,开发,发展情况restraint约束力,克制,约束,约束性self-restraint自制力,自我克制,自我约束,自制will将,会,将会,会的regulation监管,规章制度,规定,条例preparation准备,准备工作,编制,筹备工作self-control自控,自我控制,自制力,自制method方法,办法,方式,法

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of taming an animal for human use or companionship:Shortly after their domestication as companions, dogs were put to use as weapons of war.
    • : the act or process of adapting a plant to cultivation or converting it to household use:The domestication of modern wheat from wild grasses occurred in the Fertile Crescent and fueled the development of Indo-European culture.
    • : the act or process of making someone accustomed to household life or affairs:When my friend and former business partner not only got married but became pregnant, I saw it as yet another step in her domestication.
    • : the act or process of making a strange or challenging person or thing more familiar and acceptable:The author resists domestication of Nietzsche's philosophy, restoring the shock of his style and thought and interpreting him as a revolutionary philosopher.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intraining
Synonyms
coaching教练,辅导,教练员,辅导员discipline纪律,管教,惩戒,纪律性drill训练,训练演练,训练演习education教育,教育类,教育学,教育事业exercise练习,锻炼,运动,演习guidance指导,指南,指导意见,指引instruction指示,指令,教学,指导practice练习,做法,惯例,实践schooling学校教育,学校教学teaching教学,教育,教导,教workout锻炼,锻炼身体,训练,练习background背景,背景介绍,背景资料,背景情况basics基础知识,基本知识,基本原理,基本情况buildup积累,积累起来的,积聚,积累的cultivation耕种,耕作,种植,栽培foundation基金会,基础,基础知识,础grounding接地,接地性,接地工作groundwork基础工作,基层工作,工作基础,基础知识indoctrination灌输,灌输式教育,灌输教育,思想灌输preliminaries序言,序言部分,预备工作,前言principles原则,原则性,原则上,原则上说readying准备工作,准备,准备就绪,准备好了seasoning调味品,调味料,调料,调味剂sharpening锐化,削尖,锐化处理,磨削加工tuition学费,补习班,补习,补习费tune-up调整,调校,调修,调试tutelage辅导,导师,监护,教导upbringing教养,抚养,养育,教养方式warm-up热身运动,热身,热身赛,热身活动chalk talk粉笔字,粉笔画,白垩纪,粉笔字词
as indiscipline
Synonyms
control控制,管制,控制权,操控development发展,开发,发展情况education教育,教育类,教育学,教育事业method方法,办法,方式,法practice练习,做法,惯例,实践preparation准备,准备工作,编制,筹备工作regulation监管,规章制度,规定,条例restraint约束力,克制,约束,约束性self-control自控,自我控制,自制力,自制self-restraint自制力,自我克制,自我约束,自制will将,会,将会,会的conduct进行,行为,行为准则,行为举止cultivation耕种,耕作,种植,栽培curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子drill训练,训练演练,训练演习drilling演练,演练活动,演练中,演练场exercise练习,锻炼,运动,演习inculcation灌输,熏陶,灌输知识,培养indoctrination灌输,灌输式教育,灌输教育,思想灌输limitation限制,局限性,限度,局限orderliness秩序性,秩序,秩序化,秩序感self-command自我命令,自我指令,自我指挥,自我要求self-government自治,自治权,自治区,自我管理strictness严格性,严密性,严格,严格程度subordination从属关系,从属地位,从属,从属于willpower意志力,毅力,意识力,意志self-mastery自我修炼,自我超越,自我修养,自我修行
as indomesticity
Synonyms
family life家庭生活,家人生活staying at home呆在家里,留在家里,待在家里,留在家中

Examples

  • It's worth stopping for a moment to consider just how weird they are within the realm of domestication.

  • The set of genes associated with the domestication of many crops direct the production of two key hormones, florigen and antiflorigen.

  • Those genomes, along with those of modern dogs and wolves, show how dogs have moved around the world with people since their domestication.

  • In 1959, Belyaev began a project that has greatly informed our best guesses as to what we believe the earliest steps of domestication were.

  • Animal prey and their spirits represented something close to equal partners in the struggle for survival, rather than being part of the kind of dominant-subservient relationship more likely to be associated with animal domestication.

  • What I see happening, with writers like Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer, is the domestication of the vampire.

  • There is a disease to which the Horse, from his state of domestication, is frequently subject.

  • This wide diversity is the result of long domestication, under almost every conceivable variety of condition.

  • The adaptation of the unicorns proceeded in the following years, but not their domestication.

  • This lies partly in its inherited nature and original surroundings, but suggests long domestication.

  • He has shown us that even on the steppe the cultivation of cereals precedes the domestication of sheep and cattle.

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