英汉词典

feed 基本解释

• vt. 喂养；供给；放牧；抚养（家庭等）；靠…为生
• vi. 吃东西；流入
• n. 饲料；饲养；（动物或婴儿的）一餐

feed 词态变化

feed 中文词源

来自food的动词形式。

feed 英文词源

feed

feed: [OE] Feed was formed from the noun food in prehistoric Germanic times. It comes via Old English fēdan from Germanic *fōthjan, a derivative of *fōthon, the noun from which modern English food is descended. Its use as a noun, for ‘food, fodder’, dates from the 16th century.
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feed (v.)

Old English fedan "nourish, give food to, sustain, foster" (transitive), from Proto-Germanic *fodjan (cognates: Old Saxon fodjan, Old Frisian feda, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuotan, Old Norse foeða, Gothic fodjan "to feed"), from PIE root *pa- "to protect, feed" (see food). Intransitive sense "take food, eat" is from late 14c. Meaning "to supply to as food" is from 1818.

feed (n.)

"action of feeding," 1570s, from feed (v.). Meaning "food for animals" is first attested 1580s. Meaning "a sumptuous meal" is from 1808. Of machinery, "action of or system for providing raw material" from 1892.

feed 词组搭配

feed 英文释义

1. food for domestic livestock

feed 同义词解析

nourish, feed, graze

这些动词均含"提供所需食物，喂养"之意。

nourish： 指提供生长、健康或维持生存所必需的食物或养料，尤指用营养品促进生长。

feed： 普通用词，含义广泛。既可指给人或动物提供食物，又可指给植物以养料或为机器等加燃料等。

graze： 侧重指用正在生长的青草喂养牲畜。

feed 双语例句

1. She is too thin. Feed her up a bit.

她太瘦了，把她养胖点。

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2. He began to feed in the spaghetti, carefully separating the strands.

他开始放入意大利面，小心翼翼地将面一缕缕分开。

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3. To keep their bees from wandering, beekeepers feed them sugar solutions.

为了防止蜜蜂迷路，养蜂人给它们喝糖水。

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4. She criticizes me for the way I feed or change him.

她批评我不会给他喂奶、不会换尿布。

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5. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.

毛虫以各类树木、灌木和植物为食。

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feed 实用场景例句

We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.

媒体不断给我们灌输流言飞语和猜测臆断。

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The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth) .

这个婴儿还不能自己吃东西。

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The cattle are fed on barley.

这些牛要喂大麦。

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The cattle are fed barley.

这些牛要喂大麦。

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The barley is fed to the cattle.

牛喂的是大麦。

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Slugs and snails feed at night.

蛞蝓和蜗牛夜间进食。

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They have a large family to feed.

他们要养活一大家人。

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There's enough here to feed an army.

这儿的东西足以养活一支军队。

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Feed the plants once a week.

每星期要给这些花草施一次肥。

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Have you fed the cat yet?

你喂了猫没有？

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I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.

我对如何抱婴儿、如何给婴儿喂食一无所知。

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The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed.

谷物完全烂掉了，他们能将其派上的唯一用场就是作动物饲料。

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...poultry feed.

家禽饲料

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...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain.

将血液输送到大脑的血管

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...gas fed through pipelines.

通过管道输送的燃气

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He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player...

他从她手里接过光盘，放入播放机中。

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She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.

她将文件放入碎纸机。

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He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies...

他周围的人都在给他灌输可怕的谎言。

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At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.

至少有一个英国官员在向他提供机密情报。

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The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press.

离婚的事张扬出去，她十分痛苦，更加厌恶媒体了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Feed plants to encourage steady growth.

给植物施肥促使其不断生长。

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The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.

酗酒和犯罪彼此助长。

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An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer.

自动化气象站将风向信息输入计算机。

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When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often...

婴儿渴的时候，吃奶就会更频繁。

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Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.

蛞蝓以腐烂的动植物为食。

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After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding...

几天后毛虫停止进食。

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We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds...

我们拿了几片陈面包来喂鸟。

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She fed him a cookie...

她给他吃了一块饼干。

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Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.

养活饥肠辘辘的一家人花费很大。

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...a food reserve large enough to feed the Sudanese population for many months.

足够苏丹人吃好多个月的食物储备

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