核心畫面

Picture something that has been brought inside and has settled there. A wolf's family line ends up asleep by the fire; a wild grass ends up growing in a field someone planted; a person who never cooked ends up with soup on the stove. In every case the word looks at the end of that road, not at the journey: this one belongs to the house now.

可以想成一樣東西被帶進屋子裡,然後就安頓下來了。狼的後代最後睡在爐火旁邊。野草最後長在人整理過的田裡。一個從來不煮飯更多收起可以想成一樣東西被帶進屋子裡,然後就安頓下來了。狼的後代最後睡在爐火旁邊。野草最後長在人整理過的田裡。一個從來不煮飯的人,鍋子裡開始有湯。這個字看的都是那條路的終點,而不是過程:這一個現在屬於家裡了。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives domesticated as domesticate plus -ed, so the word names a finished result rather than an action in progress.

Wiktionary 記錄 domesticated 是 domesticate 加上 -ed。所以這個字講的是「已經完成的結果」,不是正在做的動作,這也是它一直帶著「已經安頓好了」味道的原因。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, entries domesticated/verb and domesticated/adj): "From domesticate + -ed."

Two branches

被人養出來的動物和植物

這是畫面最原本的用法:一整個種類被帶進人的生活,而且再也回不去野外的樣子。

adjective · B2

An animal, or sometimes a plant, that people have kept and bred over many generations, so that it now lives with people or is grown by them — working for them, giving food, or being kept as a pet — instead of living wild.

馴化的

待在家裡也做得來家事的人

把同一個畫面搬到人身上:這個人也安頓在家裡了。因為原本是講動物的字,用在人身上就自然帶著打趣的味道。

adjective · B2

Someone who is domesticated is happy spending time at home and is willing and able to do the work that home life needs — cooking, cleaning and looking after the place.

顧家的

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

domesticatedadj

  • 1

    Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)

    • But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。