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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cannot one find friends among the animals, and choose some tame kid or eloquent parrot or amiable monkey?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Good gracious,' said Teddy's mother, 'and that's a wild creature!I suppose he's so tame because we've been kind to him.'
-- The next few days were spent in getting the elephants to-gether, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giv-ing too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
-- Toomai knew that so long as he lay still on Kala Nag's neck nothing would happen to him, for even in the rush and scramble of a Keddah drive a wild elephant does not reach up with his trunk and drag a man off the neck of a tame el-ephant.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If the Jewish boy might tame the great spirit of Saul by the sound of his harp, and the words of sacred song, it may not be amiss,' he said, 'to try the potency of music here.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
-- It made the Marseilles that I knew, gesticulating and sunny, with its comfortable hotels and its restaurants crowded with the well-to-do, tame and commonplace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nell and her grandfather ate sparingly, for both were occupied with their own reflections; the other gentlemen, for whose constitutions beer was too weak and tame a liquid, consoled themselves with spirits and tobacco.
-- Such, however, is the difference between town and country, that nobody took the smallest notice of this insinuating figure; the wretches being wholly engaged in bidding the travellers farewell, in kissing hands to each other, waving handkerchiefs, and the like tame and vulgar practices.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's exactly like the son of the fortune teller that stole my tame pheasant.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the first time that I entertained a thought of breeding up some tame creatures, that I might have food when my powder and shot was all spent.
-- I had a great mind to bring it home if I could, for I had often been musing whether it might not be possible to get a kid or two, and so raise a breed of tame goats, which might supply me when my pow-der and shot should be all spent.
-- I went and cut boughs of trees, and branches of such shrubs as I could find, and threw it over, and having fed it, I tied it as I did before, to lead it away; but it was so tame with being hungry, that I had no need to have tied it, for it followed me like a dog: and as I continually fed it, the creature became so loving, so gentle, and so fond, that it became from that time one of my domestics also, and would never leave me afterwards.
-- But I did not then know what I afterwards learned, that hunger will tame a lion.
-- If I had let him stay three or four days without food, and then have carried him some water to drink and then a little corn, he would have been as tame as one of the kids; for they are mighty sagacious, tractable creatures, where they are well used.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night!I felt for my sister most severely.
-- "I have a notion," said Lucy, "you think the little Middletons rather too much indulged; perhaps they may be the outside of enough; but it is so natural in Lady Middleton; and for my part, I love to see children full of life and spirits; I cannot bear them if they are tame and quiet."
-- "I confess," replied Elinor, "that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could tame it.'
-- 'TAME it!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Manager, when introducing him to the public, added these words: "Most honored audience!I shall not take your time tonight to tell you of the great difficulties which I have encountered while trying to tame this animal, since I found him in the wilds of Africa.
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