Tame

(verb.) correct by punishment or discipline.

(adj.) flat and uninspiring .

(adj.) brought from wildness into a domesticated state; 'tame animals'; 'fields of tame blueberries' .

(adj.) very restrained or quiet; 'a tame Christmas party'; 'she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed' .

手打:维吉尔

• The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• That may be true, but it is no reason for being bullied by it into a tame admission that what has always been must always be. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• How did Mr. Jaggers tame her, Wemmick? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Something to tame first, and teach afterwards; to break in, and then to fondle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• See, Jo, how tame it is. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Yes; but not only that, said Wemmick, she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below! Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Marriage is a taming thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At once powerful and elusive, it remained for Professor Morse to capture this wild steed, and, taming it, place it in the permanent service of man. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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