Domestication
[dəʊ,mestɪkeɪʃən] or [də,mɛstə'keʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) accommodation to domestic life; 'her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication'.
(noun.) adaptation to intimate association with human beings.
杰西整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
弗朗西丝編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Settlement, colonization, localization, taming
ANT:Dissettlement, displacement, dislodgment, ejection, deportation, exile,dispeoplement
丹尼斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Some authors believe that long-continued domestication eliminates this strong tendency to sterility in species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This, in fact, is the great bar to the domestication of animals. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Under domestication, it may truly be said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Under domestication monstrosities sometimes occur which resemble normal structures in widely different animals. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this abstract to variation under domestication. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If we turn to varieties, produced, or supposed to have been produced, under domestication, we are still involved in some doubt. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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