feed
英 [fiːd]
美 [fiːd]
- 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
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记忆方法
为了记忆单词“feed”，可以将其拆解为“f-e-e-d”，然后将“f”想象成一只手指（“feed”的手），指向“e-e-d”，代表食物（“feed”给食物）。这样的视觉联想可以帮助你记住“feed”的意思是“喂养”。
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中文词源
feed 喂食
来自food的动词形式。
英语词源
- feed
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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.
=> food - 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.
权威例句
- 1. She is too thin. Feed her up a bit.
- 她太瘦了，把她养胖点。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。