domesticate /dəˈmestɪkeɪt/
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基本释义
When people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets.
v. 驯养，驯化
外刊例句
Many of the diseases Europeans had immunity to had originated in domesticated herd animals such as cows, pigs and sheep. In the Americas, people had also domesticated animals—alpacas, guinea pigs and llamas—but “unlike the ancestors of Eurasian farm animals, alpacas and llamas hadn’t lived in vast herds prior to domestication , limiting the opportunities for diseases to emerge and become endemic.”
欧洲人免疫的许多疾病都源于牛、羊、猪等驯化的群居动物。在美洲，人们也曾驯化过一些动物，如羊驼、豚鼠和美洲驼。但“与欧亚所饲养的动物的祖先不同，羊驼和美洲驼在驯化之前的种群并不庞大，所以疾病发生并流行的机会有限。”
追根溯源
单词 domesticate 里面的dom部分，来自希腊语 domos , 意思是“房子，家”。由此还引申出一个词根domin，表示“统治，支配”，有当家做主的意思。所以，在英语里包含dom/domin的单词，多与此相关：
dome /dəʊm/
n. 圆屋顶，穹顶
domain /dəˈmeɪn/
n. 领域，范围
domestic /dəˈmestɪk/
adj. 国内的，家庭的
dominate /ˈdɒmɪneɪt/
vt. 控制，支配
domineer /,dɒmɪ'nɪə/
v. 对某人发号施令，专横跋扈
predominant /prɪˈdɑmənənt/
adj. 主要的，占优势的，显著的