tame的意思|tame的解释-里氏词典

Tame \Tame\, v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.]
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to
distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country,
and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his
stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but
providence, hath reserved for time of need. --Fuller.

Tame \Tame\, a. [Compar. {Tamer}; superl. {Tamest}.] [AS. tam;
akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel.
tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. ?, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame,
and perhaps to E. beteem. [root]61. Cf. {Adamant}, {Diamond},
{Dame}, {Daunt}, {Indomitable}.]
1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness;
accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame
deer, a tame bird.

2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Tame slaves of the laborious plow. --Roscommon.

3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat;
insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See {Gentle}.

Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Taming}.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G.
z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See
{Tame}, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle
and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a
wild beast.

They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.

2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride
or passions of youth.

But arthritic bureaucracies don't tame new frontiers.
The government is trying to tame the wide swings in the monthly U.S. trade deficit, changes which in the past have sent stock prices plunging, but analysts are not sure the effortwill be a success.
On U.S. markets, the average return for the four years _ the value of the stocks themselves plus dividents _ would have been a tame $1,910.
Bucky is a white-tailed buck judged too tame to survive in the wild after being illegally raised on a farm since he was a fawn. Smith ordered him to spend the rest of his life in Chattanooga's Warner Park Zoo.
At the moment, the 'people-based' economics that supposedly lies at the heart of Mr Clinton's strategy is looking decidedly tame.
Based on last Friday's December employment data and expectations of tame consumer and producer price reports this week, the optimists have every reason to feel vindicated. However, the next few days may test their patience.
The idea, in principle, is feasible, provided that the U.S. and its prospective Southern partners tame their protectionist instincts in order to make it work.
Manila must try to tame inflation to 10% from last year's 17.7% average rate.
WASHINGTON (AP) - An ill-advised excursion into risky investments, not the high interest rates used to tame inflation early in the 1980s, caused the savings and loan debacle late in the decade, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said.
But it's worth watching, if only for its examples of television as a force in modern history _ including the dramatic moment Ceausescu starts to speak to what he thinks is the usual tame crowd.
And he envisions another tame inflation reading from next week's June consumer price index.
They see U.S. savings rising and private credit demands rather "tame in a relatively modest economic recovery."
But it is tame by Western standards and clearly run by the ruling party, which holds 389 of the seats.
The sound achieved back then was tame next to today's shattering blasts, but Mr. Reed knew he was onto something.
When equity dividend expectations are so high a yield of even 8 1/2 per cent-plus on gilts seems tame.
By now, Ms. Rosenberg has learned to tame the blast so that when the smoke clears and the ground stops rumbling, she can pull her work from the rubble fully intact.
Inflation, expected to rise to 10% or higher in the government report due out today, will be more difficult to tame with energy costs rising.
Frankfurt shares fell on heightened fears of strong action by Germany's central bank to tame inflation through a big boost in interest rates.
But as other evidence has emerged that inflation remains tame, the drought theme has been transformed into an obscure form of good news in the stock market.
Here, his Chopin (replacing Skryabin, Mozart and Brahms) was immaculate in its way, but distinctly tame. The opening of the big C minor Nocturne was superb and unexpected: a suspended hush, with beautifully liquid basses under a poignant singing line.
Chicago burned down and then Chicago built itself up again, at the same time building a myth and helping construct the mind-set that people could tame, harness and eventually triumph over nature itself.
But they disagreed whether the rise in banks' base lending rates to 10% from 9% would be sufficient to tame the credit expansion.
While you might not like to make a pet of any recession, some of them are quite tame.
The 83 percent factory utilization rate and the jobless rate of around 5.4 percent are typical of levels that existed prior to 1970, a period when inflation was relatively tame.
Any criticism in the United States is likely to be tame by comparison.
But first, Ms. Ragle, like other home workers, had to tame her family's impulse to think they could barge into her office at will.
On a recent trip to Columbia, S.C., Mrs. Dole extolled her husband's virtues to a barnful of Republicans, describing in detail his battles to overcome wounds suffered in World War II and his struggle to tame the federal deficit.
Apparently it's tame and used to people," she said.
But the truth is, their "battles" are pretty tame and rarely involve real bullets or even a light punch.
It's just that I could not support the war in Vietnam." Some of his satirical work would be considered tame today, he said.

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