domesticate

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domesticate 是什么意思

中文释义

vt. 养驯, 引进(外来词等), 教化

英文释义

v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

v. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

domesticate 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 domesticate 在自然语境里怎么用：

The wild, natural world that they sought to domesticate still affected their fitness across many different traits.

—— Humans Evolving, One Way or Another

Domesticated pig samples were aligned to genome assembly Sscrofa11.1.

—— A spatial atlas of the healthy human liver from live donors

I would be very unhappy to see them domesticated.

—— carsten höller on the ‘most powerful architect’ and collective experience at MIT museum

These gene-carrying particles look like bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), but they have been domesticated from ancient viruses and put to beneficial use under the control of the bacterial host cell.

—— Ancient viruses serve as gene delivery couriers to help bacteria resist antibiotics

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