tamed
past simple and past participle oftame
| 单词 | tamed |
| 释义 | tamed past simple and past participle oftame tame verb[T] uk/teɪm/us/teɪm/to make awildanimaltame tocontrolsomethingdangerousorpowerful: He'll need to tame histemperif hewantstosucceed. Animal (non-human) behaviour
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Controlling and being in charge Examplesoftamedtamed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Probably, once the 'affirmation of life' has beentamed, composers will find it more useful. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the nomadic pastoral zones and their people could never be completely 'tamed' or made gentlemen soldiers until the 1850s. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps, then, this is also a means whereby what is threatening in cultural forms istamed, made palatable for mass consumption. From theCambridge English Corpus Thetamed, domesticated, visualized offstage of the former has been traced in the untamed, intractable, uncontrollable form of the latter. From theCambridge English Corpus Then the exotic must betamedand dressedup in order to pre-empt any evocation of the enemy within. From theCambridge English Corpus On the one hand, this newlytamedforce could power new technologies such as the telegraph and dynamo. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps the intolerance acknowledges that intellect, no matter how docile, can never betamedonce and for all. From theCambridge English Corpus As mentioned earlier, however, the general assumption that increasingly complex environments can only betamedby increasingly complex strategies is doubtful. From theCambridge English Corpus We can start with the notion that to the colonizer the uncultivated wilderness must betamedinto a single urban-rural relationship. From theCambridge English Corpus In both instances wild nature wastamedby appeals to its uncontained desires. From theCambridge English Corpus They are quicklytamedand become cooperative subjects for behavioral experiments. From theCambridge English Corpus Swiss engineers not onlytamedwild torrents and high-water rivers; they also attacked the mountains. From theCambridge English Corpus By struggling with new technology, it is "tamed" and becomes part of the social structure of health care. From theCambridge English Corpus In such performances, inhibition literallytamedanimal nature. From theCambridge English Corpus Death istamedthrough a radical split of mind and body and a belief that personhood resides in something non-corporeal. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
|
英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。