domesticate

verb

1. 驯养，驯化（动物）
   to make a wild animal used to living with or working for humans
2. 驯化，培育（植物或农作物）
   to grow plants or crops for human use
3. 使精于家务；使喜爱家居
   to make sb good at cooking, caring for a house, etc.; to make sb enjoy home life
   1. Some men are very hard to domesticate.
      有些男人很难做好家务活。

1. VERB 驯养;驯化
   When people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets.
   1. We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
      我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。
   2. ...sheep, cattle, horses, and other domesticated animals.
      羊、牛、马及其他驯养的动物

1. We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting.
   我们驯狗来帮我们打猎。
2. A few months ago, we wrote about a Belarusian family that has managed to domesticate a pack of wild wolves and are now raising them as pets.
   几个月前，有一个白俄罗斯家庭，成功驯养一群野生狼后当做宠物来喂养。
3. Several species of ant domesticate a kind of insect called an aphid.
   蚂蚁驯养的几种动物中有一种就是蚜虫。
4. Anyone who intends to domesticate and breed wildlife under special state protection shall obtain a license.
   驯养繁殖国家重点保护野生动物的，应当持有许可证。
5. Thanks to where they were, Europe and its North American offshoots had plants and animals that were easy to domesticate, a low burden of disease, and natural resources that supported industrialisation.
   由于它们（得天独厚）的地理位置，欧洲和它的美国分支拥有易于驯养和栽培的动植物、较轻的疾病负担以及有利于工业化的自然资源。
6. After the agriculture revolution, the human beings became the producers and they got all or most of the food by using the natural resource-the land to grow plants and domesticate animals.
   到了农业革命时期，人类便成为生产者，即利用自然界的资源&土地，靠栽培植物和驯养动物获取全部或大部食物。
7. It is possible to domesticate some wild animals.
   有些野兽是可以驯养的。
8. He wished to stock their larder first, and domesticate those which they might take later.
   他打算先抓来充实他们的食品室，以后有工夫再捉来驯养。
9. 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。
10. While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won't try.
    一些比我聪明的弟兄们试图给他改个名字，以便驯化驯服他，我没有这么做。
11. They couldn't domesticate them, so they destory them.
    人们不能驯服野马，所以就毁掉它们。
12. Humans started to domesticate wild cows about eight to ten thousand years ago.
    大约八千&一万年前人类开始驯化野牛。
13. Objective: to do domesticate cultivation of Asarum heteropodies Fr.
    目的：驯化栽培北细辛、华细辛。
14. The bases were provided for development of culture and domesticate traditional Chinese medicine according to status quo of traditional Chinese medicine resources in Wulan county.
    通过了解乌兰县中药村现状，为以后野生驯化、发展乌兰县中药材种植提供前提条件。
15. Eventually Crusoe learns to plant crops, domesticate goats for milk, and even train a parrot for a pet.
    终于，鲁滨逊学会了种植粮食作物，驯养野羊获取羊奶，甚至还训练出一只鹦鹉作宠物。
16. I plant the potatoes, I weed the garden, I domesticate the species.
    我种植马铃薯，替花园除草，驯养各种动植物。
17. While according to the analysis of the inversion rate of Fe~ ( 2+) and the precipitation rate of Fe in solution, the ore-bearing 9K cultures more benefit to domesticate the Thiobacillus.
    而从Fe2+的转化速率及Fe的沉淀率上分析，含矿石的9K培养基更有利于驯化铁杆菌；
18. At last, the thesis draws the conclusion that different cultural demands at different time tend to guide translators 'strategies to domesticate or foreignize.
    最后，得出本文结论：不同时期的文化需求决定了译者不同的翻译策略。
19. With regard to the treatment for wastewater which contents 3% methanol, domesticate bacteria biochemical treatment and gas producer treatment are both introduced.
    简介了用驯化菌种生化处理和用固定床煤气发生炉处理含3%甲醇废水的技术。
20. According to the analysis of adjusting the sour times, range and the degree of pH value descent, the ore-bearing 9K+ S cultures more benefit to domesticate the Ferrobacillus.
    从调酸次数、幅度及pH下降的程度上分析，含矿石的9K+S培养基更有利于驯化硫杆菌；
21. One is to breed salt tolerance into conventional crops such as wheat and tomato, the other is to domesticate wild, salt tolerant plant, called halophyte for use as crop.
    海水农业有两条途径，其一为培育耐盐传统作物如小麦和番茄，另一为驯化野生耐盐植物，即盐生植物，使之作物化。
22. And also not limited to the old law, active new garden species and domesticate plants, explore new landscaping species, to enrich the landscape garden plants in our province.
    并且还要不寓于旧法，积极开展新的园林树种的引种和驯化工作，发掘新的园林绿化树种，丰富我省城市园林的植物景观。
23. Natural saline-alkali water was added into the water of desalinated prawn ponds to domesticate desalinated juvenile white legged shrimp ( Litopenaeus vannamei), in order to study the technique of cultivating prawn at carbonate saline-alkali waters in northeast China.
    以淡化虾塘水添加天然盐碱水为试验用水驯化南美白对虾幼虾，探讨东北地区碳酸盐类盐碱水养殖对虾的技术。
24. Celluloses are some of the most abundant renewable resources in the world, and xylose is one of the main hydrolyzates from celluloses. Therefore, to domesticate oleaginous micro-organisms for the efficient utilization of micro-organisms has guiding significance to the development of oil industry.
    纤维素类物质是地球上最丰富的可再生资源之一，而木糖是纤维素类物质的主要水解产物之一，因此驯化油脂微生物高效利用木糖生产油脂对油脂工业的开发具有重要的指导意义。
25. In order to improve the efficiency of biogas fermentation of cotton stalks, it is necessary to pretreat cotton stalks, and to screen and domesticate high active inocula for biogas fermentation.
    为了提高棉秆的沼气发酵效率，有必要对棉秆原料进行预处理，同时筛选驯化活性较高的接种物进行沼气发酵。
26. For the humans, there is a crucial and durable method is to make a definition of something that to acknowledge the world, to domesticate the nature and finally to living harmonically with it.
    对人类而言，认识世界、驯化自然到与之和谐共生，一个关键而古老的方法就是对事物下定义。

  tame domesticate train【导航词义：驯养】

  tame v. 驯服，驯养

〔辨析〕指驯化野生动物。

  domesticate v. 驯养，驯化

〔辨析〕指驯养动物为人类做事，或使其作为宠物和人类生活在一起。

  train v. 训练

〔辨析〕指训练动物做某事或做出正确的举动。

verb

1. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
   1. The horse was domesticated a long time ago
   2. The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog

   Synonym:    tame

2. overcome the wildness of
   1. He tames lions for the circus
   2. reclaim falcons

   Synonym:    domesticizedomesticisereclaimtame

3. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   1. domesticate oats
   2. tame the soil

   Synonym:    cultivatenaturalizenaturalisetame