| 单词 | tame |
| 释义 | tame I. 1. a. < tame cattle gone wild — Hart Stilwell > b. < our tame firebrand — Dorothy Sayers > < the new tame sultan — Janet Flanner > c. < on the day the control structures are completed … the mighty Mississippi should be a pretty tame and useful river — A.W.Baum > 2. a. < the chipmunks … are so tame they beg for food — American Guide Series: California > b. < no colt will bear it, or he's a tame beast — George Meredith > 3. < the yield of tame blueberries runs from 150 to 1200 quarts per acre — J.M.White > 4. < struck out for himself and refused to live the tame easy life — Frank Sargeson > < a little tame wood which rambled up from the village — Audrey Barker > < a tame book > < a tame campaign > Synonyms: < the tamest, the most abject creatures that we can possibly imagine: mild, peaceable, and tractable, they seem to have no will or power to act but as directed by their masters — William Bartram > < tame acquiescence in tradition and routine — Irving Babbitt > subdued generally implies a loss of vehemence, intensity, or force; in reference to people it suggests the quietness or meekness of one dependent, chastised, broken, or timorous < subdued voices > < there were seamen going about routine duties, but they performed them in a subdued, soundless manner as though they were officiating at church — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < their next meeting displayed her quieter: subdued as one who had been set thinking — George Meredith > submissive implies deferring to the will of another and yielding and humbly obeying < a people, gentle, submissive, prompt to obey, and accustomed, as were the Egyptians, to the inexorable demands of tyranny — Agnes Repplier > < in the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him — Charles Dickens > II. transitive verb 1. a. < tame a lion > b. < small valleys and plains that have been tamed and worked into precise patterns by generations of farmers — Patrick O'Donovan > c. < roads blasted in the solid rock, wild streams dammed and tamed — John Muir †1914 > < tame the atom > < the sources have been tamed in a masterly fashion — M.M.Postan > 2. < tamed the populace with shiploads of … wheat — T.H.Fielding > 3. < in revising the play, he has tamed it > intransitive verb < the manatees tamed quickly — Natural History > < a roughneck frontiersman who tames down at the end — Walter Havighurst > III. 1. dialect England 2. dialect England |
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