| 单词 | domesticate |
| 释义 | domesticate verb[Toften passive] uk/dəˈmes.tɪ.keɪt/us/dəˈmes.tɪ.keɪt/tobringanimalsorplantsunderhumancontrolinordertoprovidefood,power, orcompany: 驯化，驯养；人工培植Dogs wereprobablythe firstanimalsto be domesticated.狗很可能是最早被驯化的动物。 Changing
domesticate| American Dictionarydomesticate verb[T] us/dəˈmes·tɪˌkeɪt/tobringanimalsorplantsunderhumancontrolso thathumansmay use them asfood, forpower, or asfriends Examplesofdomesticatedomesticate In the poems from this third group, feminine historical memory domesticates the inevitable disruptive effects of time, violence, and death. From theCambridge English Corpus It is argued that domesticated pragmatism, with its emphasis on local rather than global perspective, has led to trivialization and degeneration of self-reflective critique. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead of secluding, domesticating, or devaluing, privacy guards women's place and participation in public. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, perennial grain breeders are pursuing two parallel strategies: domesticating promising wild perennials and hybridizing annual crops with perennial relatives. From theCambridge English Corpus The corporate scientists in the films wish todomesticateit, to control and funnel its powers, to enslave it. From theCambridge English Corpus A synanthropic cycle is maintained when domesticated reindeer are herded with dogs. From theCambridge English Corpus We believe that it is insufficient to understand mobile phones simply as devices that are ' domesticated' in order to serve specific local requirements. From theCambridge English Corpus The communal space was domesticated, then, and the direction of the prisoners' activity within that space strongly referenced the bourgeois domestic scene. From theCambridge English Corpus Left to its own devices, ambiguous pragmatism becomes domesticated pragmatism, for nothing is more convincing than what exists. From theCambridge English Corpus The land that is domesticated by dwelling is as much a 'sediment' of human activity as is a painting or map of that very land. From theCambridge English Corpus The tamed, domesticated, visualized offstage of the former has been traced in the untamed, intractable, uncontrollable form of the latter. From theCambridge English Corpus Landscape is nature domesticated and appropriated by man. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, we should discuss differences between nature and culture, or between domesticated and undomesticated animals. From theCambridge English Corpus So, the lawyer-narrator is unmanned by not being able to control his employees, and unmanned by having his office domesticated. From theCambridge English Corpus This fatalism links the doctrine of the political via negativa to domesticated pragmatism. 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. |
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