(of animals, birds, etc. 兽、鸟等 not afraid of people, and used to living with them 养驯的；驯服的 The bird became so tame that it was impossible to release it back into the wild. 这只鸟变得如此温顺，以至于不可能把它放回野外。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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not interesting or exciting 平淡无奇的；枯燥乏味的 Extra ExamplesI found the violence in the film surprisingly tame. 我觉得电影中的暴力镜头无聊透顶。 Most of the jokes are relatively tame. 大多数笑话相对乏味。 After what I've just been through, hitching a ride seems pretty tame stuff! 在经历了这些之后，搭便车似乎是件很乏味的事情。 Such games must all sound rather tame to today's children. 对今天的孩子们来说，这些游戏听起来一定很乏味。 living a life that makes Wild West movies look positively tame 过着一种比西部片更刺激的生活
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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(of a person 人 willing to do what other people ask 听使唤的；温顺的
Word OriginOld English tam (adjective), temmian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tam and German zahm, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin domare and Greek daman ‘tame, subdue’.