- If something is tame, it cannot surprise or injure you. It’s predictable. Tame can be used as an adjective or verb. A circus lion is tame (adjective) because it’s been tamed (verb). A “lion-tamer” beat the wildness out of it.
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- adj. 驯服的；平淡的；乏味的；
- v. 驯服
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1. You'll find life here pretty tame after New York.
这里的生活相当枯燥，与纽约形成对比。
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2. I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off.
我的医生对我百依百顺，我想要休一天假时，他总会给我开病假条。
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3. Lions can never be completely tamed.
狮子永远不能被完全驯化。
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4. She made efforts to tame her anger.
她竭力压制心头怒火。
- tame (adj.) early Middle English tame "in a state of subjection, physically subdued, restrained in behavior" (c. 1200); of animals "domesticated, reclaimed from wildness," also, of persons, "meek, gentle-natured, compliant, intent on homely or domestic activities" (mid-13c.), from oblique forms of Old English tom, tam "domesticated, docile," from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (source also of Old Norse tamr, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch tam, Old High German zam, German zahm "tame," Gothic tamjan "to tame"), from PIE *deme- "to constrain, to force, to break (horses)" (source also of Sanskrit damayati "tames;" Persian dam "a tame animal;" Greek daman "to tame, subdue," dmetos "tame;" Latin domare "to tame, subdue;" Old Irish damnaim "I tie up, fasten, I tame, subdue").
- tame (v.) mid-14c., from tame (adj.), or altered by the form of the adjective from Old English temian "subdue, make tame," from Proto-Germanic *tamjan- (source also of Old Norse temja, Old Frisian tema, Middle Dutch temmen, Old High German zemmen, German zähmen, Gothic tamjan). Related: Tamed; taming.
tame / teɪm ; NAmE teɪm / adjective , verb tame tames tamed taming adjective ( tamer , tam·est ) 1 (of animals, birds, etc. 动物、鸟等 ) not afraid of people, and used to living with them 养驯的；驯服的 OPP wild 2 ( informal) not interesting or exciting 平淡无奇的；枯燥乏味的 ◆ You'll find life here pretty tame after New York. 这里的生活相当枯燥，与纽约形成对比。 3 ( informal) (of a person 人 ) willing to do what other people ask 听使唤的；温顺的 ◆ I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off. 我的医生对我百依百顺，我想要休一天假时，他总会给我开病假条。 ▶ tame·ly / teɪmli ; NAmE teɪmli / adverb tame·ness / teɪmnəs ; NAmE teɪmnəs / noun [uncountable ] verb tamesth to make sth tameor easy to control 驯化；驯服；使易于控制 ◆ Lions can never be completely tamed. 狮子永远不能被完全驯化。 ◆ She made strenuous efforts to tame her anger. 她竭力压制心头怒火。 tame / teɪm ; NAmE teɪm / tame·ly / teɪmli ; NAmE teɪmli / tame·ness / teɪmnəs ; NAmE teɪmnəs /
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