domesticate
英 [də'mestɪkeɪt]
美 [də'mɛstɪket]
- vt. 驯养；教化；引进
- vi. 驯养；使习惯于或喜爱家务和家庭生活
中文词源
domesticate 驯养来自拉丁语domus, 家，词源同domain. 即家养的，驯养。
英文词源
- domesticate (v.)
- 1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, "to cause to be attached to home and family;" from Medieval Latin domesticatus, past participle of domesticare "to tame," literally "to dwell in a house," from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domesticating.
双语例句
- 1. Some men are very hard to domesticate.
- 有些男人很难做好家务活。
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- 2. Many thousand years ago people learned how to domesticate animals.
- 数千年以前人们就学会了饲养动物.
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- 3. Objective: to do domesticate cultivation of Asarum heteropodies Fr.
- 目的: 驯化栽培北细辛、华细辛.
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- 4. It's difficult to domesticate a bachelor.
- 很难使一个单身汉适应家庭生活.
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- 5. If you domesticate this raccoon, it will have trouble living in the wild.
- 如果你驯养这只浣熊, 它生活在野外将会有困难.
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