(noun.) accommodation to domestic life; 'her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication'.
(noun.) adaptation to intimate association with human beings.
杰西整理
双语例句
But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Some authors believe that long-continued domestication eliminates this strong tendency to sterility in species. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
This, in fact, is the great bar to the domestication of animals. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Under domestication, it may truly be said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Under domestication monstrosities sometimes occur which resemble normal structures in widely different animals. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this abstract to variation under domestication. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
If we turn to varieties, produced, or supposed to have been produced, under domestication, we are still involved in some doubt. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.