为了把原本的野生动物变成家畜，就必须把它们tame了，后来也意指将性格暴戾的人转变成较为温顺的人~

红遍全球的小天后Miley Cyrus（麦莉·塞勒斯） 在2010年发行了她的转型专辑Can’t be tamed，一改纯真形象，变得性感撩人，展现不一样的Miley Cyrus，看这封面，野性十足，can’t be tamed~

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BBC流行汽车节目Top Gear有一位神秘的“驯服赛车手（tame racing driver）”The Stig. 他的名字源于1984年世界拉力赛冠军，Stig Blomqvist. 他的所有镜头表现出同样的赛车工作服和头盔，但却从来没有透露他的身份。

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Definition of TAME

1

: reduced from a state of native wildness especially so as to be tractable and useful to humans : domesticated <tame animals>

2

: made docile and submissive : subdued

3

: lacking spirit, zest, interest, or the capacity to excite : insipid <a tame campaign>

Examples of TAME

1. The island's birds are quite tame.
2. They ran a pretty tame campaign.
3. Some people were shocked by the movie, but I found the story pretty tame.
4. Members of the audience were too tame to interrupt the speaker.

Origin of TAME

Middle English, from Old English tam; akin to Old High German zam tame, Latin domare to tame, Greek damnanai

First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to TAME

Synonyms: domestic, domesticated, tamed

Antonyms: feral, non-domesticated, savage, undomesticated, untamed, wild

Related Words: broken, halterbroken, housebroken, trained; docile, familiar, gentle, semidomesticated; subdued, submissive

Near Antonyms: unbroken, untrained; wildish