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小词详解 | domesticate
domesticate 英 [dəˈmestɪkeɪt] 美 [dəˈmestɪkeɪt]
The way to make supply chains more resilient is not to domesticate them, which concentrates risk and forfeits economies of scale, but to diversify them.
要让供应链更能抵抗风险,不应该将它迁回国内,因为这只会让风险集中并丧失规模经济;供应链多元化才是出路。
——《经济学人》If we want to take these ideas seriously, we shouldn’t domesticate them to our own way of thinking.
如果我们想认真对待这些观念,就不该用我们的思维方式去改造它们。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 驯服(动物)并将其作为宠物或放在农场饲养
他们驯养了一条恶犬来帮他们打猎。
They domesticated a vicious dog to help them with hunting.
习性淘气的孩子很难做好家务活。
Children with mischievous propensities are very hard to domesticate.那个贪心的人仍然非常喜欢到处漫游,难以在家住定。
The covetous man was still filled with wanderlust, unable to domesticate.
started to domesticate European customs
开始引进欧洲习俗
Habitations, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, children, and the soil that bore them--all worn out.
住宅、篱笆、家畜、男人、女人、孩子和承担着他们的土地——全都精疲力尽了。
tame: domesticate (an animal) subdue: overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person) subjugate: bring under domination or control, especially by conquest