1(of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated.

这些鱼一点都不怕人，你不得不用手把它们从面罩边推走。

1. 1.1informal (of a person) willing to cooperate.
   〈非正式〉（人）愿意合作的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He used this to block his mother's attempts to re-examine his father with her own tame doctors.
   • The biotech companies and their tame scientists are using other people's poverty to engineer their own enrichment.
   • Reports in Shanghai's usually tame newspapers complained that journalists were barred from approaching the mine.
   • It seems that they may not have expected to find that the man would be so tame and co-operative as to give them a free hand to engage in their business and flee the scene.
   • She's intending to visit again, with a sister in-tow, and possibly once more with a tame builder who will advise her on the practicability of extending the house.
   • Matthew, for a contract to be valid, there are actually lots of gritty details and for that reason it's sometimes not a bad idea to see a tame lawyer.
   • But the public's current disillusionment with tame government scientists in the wake of BSE is high.
   • So I think there are a number of people within the Met who are feeding information to what they regard as tame reporters.
   • With a tame sister republic to the north, the Belgian departments were lightly garrisoned by troops not expecting to be used to keep domestic order.
   • Anyone with a tame doctor (which would be everyone I know) can get an excuse note for those.
   • The newsroom became the home of the tame dissident and the compliant office holder.
   • After their initial statements, all of the parties kept a careful silence, with the complete acquiescence of a tame media.
   • Feigning a serious illness, he arranges for him to have a tame doctor prescribe an ocean voyage to Hawaii as a cure.
   • It takes all the fun out of it if people think you have a tame journalist rather than being able to command headlines on your own merits.
   • On the other hand, religion makes brave valiant men meek tame and cowardly such that they refuse to shed blood even for their motherland.

   Synonyms

   docile, submissive, compliant, meek, obedient, tractable, acquiescent, amenable, manageable, unresisting, passive, mild, subdued, under someone's control, under someone's thumb, suppressed, unassertive, ineffectual

   amenable, biddable, cooperative, available, willing

2derogatory Not exciting, adventurous, or controversial.

3North American (of a plant) produced by cultivation.

1. 3.1 (of land) cultivated.
   （土地）经开垦的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • But this time around caring for each individual needs was not that easy, and his once tame land started to grow unmanageable and wild.
   • We want to have a nice combination of wild & tame land, where we can build up the soil of the ‘farm’ and also replenish trees, provide a habitat for wildlife, and generally be good stewards of this little plot of earth we've been blessed with.
   • The traces of their times were left here even by citizens of the mighty Roman empire, who were encouraged to settle in this area by riches of nature, fertile land, forests and rivers, which were for centuries a magical attraction for people who settled on this tame land.

1Domesticate (an animal)

1. 1.1 Make less powerful and easier to control.
   使变得缓和；使容易驾驭
   the battle to tame inflation

   控制通货膨胀的战斗。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I was working on taming my out of control curly black hair, it wasn't going so well, I had given up on trying to blow dry it straight, so I just let it go.
   • You don't throw rocks at the guy who's trying to tame the tiger.
   • Her unruly teeth have been tamed into a neat, pearly, Californian smile, the parakeet spiked hair is now a glossy black mane.
   • Dab a little on your eyebrows to tame unruly hairs.
   • But it may simply be naïve to think that any country can permanently tame the tiger of tribalism.
   • In these circumstances parliament, rather than being a mechanism by which mass pressure is applied against the ruling class, is a mechanism for taming the representatives of mass feeling.
   • That's a major shift for the Fed, which has spent the last quarter-century trying to tame inflation and contain price increases.
   • Isn't it also about - or I should say, how do you avoid it being about mind over matter, you know, that old Western paradigm of the rational mind controlling or taming the body?
   • At 48, he is learning to tame his creative spirit and take on just a couple of projects at a time.
   • But 25 years of European exile and a gradual mellowing of the spirit have tamed the Australian rocker's legendary excesses.
   • Emotion, though we believe we can control it, is so volatile that is like taming the storm.
   • A few drops of either product, worked through your hair, tames unruly strands and adds significant shine.
   • Although times are still tough there, inflation has been tamed and the foundation stones are in place for the country to transform itself in the run-up to joining the EU.
   • This is obviously much easier than traditional forms of meditation that took much practice and discipline to tame the mind.
   • Will she be able to tame the unruly private bus drivers who often hold the city life to ransom and streamline the chaotic city traffic?
   • Teaching can curb and tame an undisciplined enthusiasm.
   • The last time police repression was used to tame the powerful Italian left was in the 1970s.
   • To support this she claims that women viewed it as hospitable and welcoming, not as something harsh or forbidding that needed to be tamed or overcome.
   • Serum actually works very well in taming unruly strands.
   • Interest rates jump in an effort to tame inflation, the inevitable by-product of unrestrained spending.

   Synonyms

   subdue, curb, control, calm, master, bring to heel, tone down, water down, moderate, mitigate, tranquillize, overcome, discipline, suppress, repress, mollify, humble, cow, pacify, mellow, mute, temper, soften, bridle, get the better of, get a grip on
2. 1.2 Cultivate (land or wilderness).
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In his notations and observations of the Arizona night sky did he ever imagine that a stark desert would be so intelligently tamed and transformed into a magnificent suburban idyll in less than a half a millennium?
   • The tractors roared toward darkness, the land is tamed once again.
   • Their economic activity based on their culture has largely been that they did tame land in the traditional sense of clearing and building expansive settlement that traditionally marked out a territory as belonging to a particular community.
   • Slave labor offered a distinct advantage to those who sought to tame the wilderness for economic benefit.
   • The slopes rise gently and much of the wilderness has been tamed but none of the beauty eroded.
   • Others, particularly foreign visitors, lamented the absence of the human hand responsible for transforming and taming the unruly wilderness.
   • Has the land been tamed once it has been so marked?
   • Some of the land is tamed, but without man's constant intervention this would all be re-claimed by the bush and the game in pretty short order.
   • He feels that the wild land has been tamed for the better.
   • He points out the irony of British attachment to the purity of a countryside which, from the manicured fields of Hampshire to the grouse moors of the Highlands, has been twisted and tamed to suit human needs for thousands of years.
   • Almost all had nice gardens, the North African wilderness tamed into something of which she might have approved.
   • Despite the scattered pastures and tinkle of belled flocks, the area is not yet wholly tamed.
   • As the family and others were taming land in the area, the great drought of 1863 hit, drying the San Antonio and Nueces rivers to a trickle.