Word · CEFR B1 · Frequency #1412
feed
喂;喂食;喂养
核心释义
To give food to (a person or animal).
- 1.
喂食
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- 2.
进食
To eat (usually of animals).
- 3.
提供食物
provide as food
- 4.
送入机器处理
To give to a machine to be processed.
- 5.
喂食
give food to
- 6.
给机器加料
To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- 7.
满足
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- 8.
供给
To supply with something.
- 9.
放牧
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- 10.
传给
To pass to.
- 11.
触发音系规则
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- 12.
触发句法规则
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
吃食;进食;把…送入;给(机器)加料;供给;提供;满足;迎合;传给;传球给
用法In use
I feed my cat twice a day.
用法提示:feed 作动词,意为“喂食”,后接宾语表示喂养的对象。
The baby is learning to feed herself.
用法提示:feed 作动词,此处为反身用法,表示“自己进食”。
They fed the chickens this morning.
用法提示:fed 是 feed 的过去式,表示过去发生的喂养动作。
Feed the guests the nuts
Feed the starving children in India
feed + sb/sth
直接接喂食的对象。
She feeds the cat twice a day.
她每天喂猫两次。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- feed a family
- 养活一家人
- He works two jobs to feed his family.他打两份工来养活家人。
- feed on
- (动物)以…为食
- Bats feed on insects.蝙蝠以昆虫为食。
- feed into
- 送入;输入(机器、系统等)
- She fed the paper into the printer.她把纸放进打印机。
- feed the fire
- 往火里添柴;给火加燃料
- They fed the fire with dry logs.他们往火里添干柴。
- feed someone's curiosity
- 满足某人的好奇心
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
联想feed的拼写:两个e像张开的嘴,把食物递进嘴里就是“喂”。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域:neutral 常见场景:日常对话、家庭喂养、农业/饲养场景 「feed」作“喂食、喂养”讲时通常属于中性语域,日常口语、家庭育儿或饲养场景以及一般书面语中都较常见,没有明显的正式或随意限制。
语法说明Grammar Note
不规则动词,过去式和过去分词为fed
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
feed (/fiːd/) 与 seed、need、weed、speed、breed 押韵:这些词都以 eed 结尾,读作 /iːd/。food 拼写相似但读音不同,读作 /fuːd/,不押韵。
高价值词汇High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇,值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
用法优先级Usage priority
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