tame

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 tām

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make or become tame; to domesticate (an animal). transitive
    — Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
  2. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
  3. To make submissive. transitive
    — The governor tames the engine.
  4. To take control of something that is unruly.
    — Police have to tame the riots.
形容词 adj.
  1. Under human control.
  2. Docile or tranquil towards humans.
    — The lion was quite tame.
  3. Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. figuratively
    — What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.
  4. Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society. obsolete
    — The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner.
  5. Not exciting.
    — This party is too tame for me.
  6. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
    — tame slaves of the laborious plough
  7. Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

词形变化

tamer comparative tamest superlative tames present,singular,third-person taming participle,present tamed participle,past tamed past tames present,singular,third-person taming participle,present tamed participle,past tamed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).
Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).
The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).
词源 2
From Middle English tamen (“to cut into, broach”). Compare French entamer.
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