tame是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 驯服了的; (人) 顺从的, 听话的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voice of the submissive man who had spo-ken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission.
-- 'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shut-ters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from 463us I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miser-able race die out!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may believe every word I say, said the Raven; 'for I have a tame sweetheart that hops about in the palace quite free, and it was she who told me all this.
-- 'That may be,' said the Raven; 'I did not examine him so minutely; but I know from my tame sweetheart, that when he came into the court-yard of the palace, and saw the body-guard in silver, the lackeys on the staircase, he was not the least abashed; he nodded, and said to them, 'It must be very tiresome to stand on the stairs; for my part, I shall go in.'
-- It is said he spoke as well as I speak when I talk Raven language; this I learned from my tame sweetheart.
-- I'll speak to my tame sweetheart about it: she must advise us; for so much I must tell you, such a little girl as you are will never get permission to enter.'
-- A single lamp was burning there; and on the floor stood the tame Raven, turning her head on every side and looking at Gerda, who bowed as her grandmother had taught her to do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How did Mr. Jaggers tame her, Wemmick?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It now began to be known and talked of in the neigh-bourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it like-wise imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old.
-- He was strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size, by whom I might propagate the breed: but I think I should rather have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept in cages, like tame canary-birds, and perhaps, in time, sold about the kingdom, to persons of quality, for curiosi-ties.
-- I answered 'that our horses were trained up, from three or four years old, to the several uses we intended them for; that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were em-ployed for carriages; that they were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks; that the males, designed for the common use of riding or draught, were generally castrated about two years after their birth, to take down their spirits, and make them more tame and gentle; that they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments; but his honour would please to consider, that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than the Yahoos in this country.'
-- So that, sup-posing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy, which ev-ery creature discovered against us; nor consequently how we could tame and render them serviceable.
-- At which times they would approach as near as they durst, and imitate my actions after the manner of monkeys, but ever with great signs of hatred; as a tame jackdaw with cap and stockings is always persecuted by the wild ones, when he happens to be got among them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're too tame and clinging.'
-- When the last real man is killed, and they're ALL tame: white, black, yel-low, all colours of tame ones: then they'll ALL be insane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, there's a tame bird to kiss the little hand!This sausage in a vine leaf is for Monsieur Rigaud.
-- He was tame in comparison with Mr Gowan, who knew how to address me on equal terms, and how to anatomise the wretched people around us.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He traveled a long while, nearly eight-and-twenty years, and had a hard time of it, till he came to the palace of a good old king, who had offered a reward to anyone who could tame and train a fine but unbroken colt, of which he was very fond.
-- 'Dear little bird!See, Jo, how tame it is.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
-- For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this and rightly ascribed it to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
-- Keeping at the centre of the lake, we were occasionally visited by small tame cows and calves; the women and children of this routed host.
-- Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
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