feed

feeing 是 feed 的现在分词,页面展示原形释义。
英 [fiːd] 美 [fiːd]
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  • 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

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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
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。

词语辨析

【graze, nourish, feed】
这组词都有“提供所需食物,喂养”的意思,其区别是:
graze: 侧重指用正在生长的青草喂养牲畜。
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。

【enhance, raise, feed】
enhance: 增强,提高,美化(多用于抽象意义)
raise: 养育(孩子),饲养(家畜),生产(作物),提高,上升,养育
feed: 给(人或动物)食物

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