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tame

Word family 
Related topics: Animals
tame1 /teɪm/ adjectiveadj
1  HBAa tame animal or bird is not wild any longer, because it has been trained to live with people 〔動物〕馴化的，由人馴養的 OPP wild
tame elephants
馴養的大象
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2  informalBORING dull and disappointing 平淡的；枯燥乏味的
Most of the criticism has been pretty tame.
評論的大部分内容很乏味。
I decided that teaching was too tame for me.
我最終認爲教書對我來說太枯燥。
3  [only before noun] British EnglishBrE used to describe a person who is willing to do what other people ask, even if it is slightly dishonest 聽使喚的；溫順的
If you have a tame doctor, he might give you a sick note.
要是你的醫生好說話，他可能會給你開個病假條。
—tamely adverbadv
—tameness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
tame• By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.• It had all been very tame.• Seen in comparison with the preceding axial age, the Hellenistic age is tame and conservative.• These little fishes become quite tame and will respond at feeding time by rushing to their food like a litter of puppies.• Gardens contrived to divert the power of botanical growth into the tame artifacts of domesticated crops.• The jokes, when they do come, are rather tame but still funny.• The '70s series now seem tame by today's standards.• Not your weasel-faced tame magic, but root-and-branch magic, the old magic.• In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken, ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits.
Related topics: Animals
tame2 verb [transitiveT]
1  REDUCEto reduce the power or strength of something and prevent it from causing trouble 制服，控制；駕馭
The prime minister managed to tame the trade unions.
首相設法把工會掌控住了。
2  HBATEACHto train a wild animal to obey you and not to attack people 馴服〔野生動物〕，使馴化 SYN domesticate
The Asian elephant can be tamed and trained.
亞洲象可以被馴服並加以訓練。
Examples from the Corpus
tame• Don Bradman, the catalyst of the affair, was only temporarily tamed, as his Test batting average of 56.57 testified.• Unlike her former co-star, Antonio Banderas, Abril has not been tamed by Hollywood.• He had fought a maddening, 24-hour battle against a river that California agriculture had tamed for more than a half century.• Statistics show that rent control laws haven't tamed inflation.• Where it should have tried harder, however, is with taming mechanical noise levels.• Is there a product to tame my hair?• These actions threw the economy into a recession, but also tamed the inflationary monster.• Children and, later, teenagers have to learn to put a brake on their impulses, to tame their desires.
Origin tame1
Old English tam
tame1 adjectiveadjtame2 verb
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