Word · Frequency #1412
feeding
喂；喂食；喂养
feeding is the present participle of feed.
To give food to (a person or animal).
- 1.
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
喂食
- 2.
To eat (usually of animals).
进食
- 3.
provide as food
提供食物
- 4.
To give to a machine to be processed.
送入机器处理
- 5.
give food to
喂食
- 6.
To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
给机器加料
- 7.
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
满足
- 8.
To supply with something.
供给
- 9.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
放牧
- 10.
To pass to.
传给
- 11.
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
触发音系规则
- 12.
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
触发句法规则
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
In use
I feed my cat twice a day.
The baby is learning to feed herself.
They fed the chickens this morning.
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。
feed on + sth
表示动物以某物为食，也可用于比喻。
Bats feed on insects and fruit.
蝙蝠以昆虫和水果为食。
feed + sth + to + sb/sth
Connections
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
- The book fed my curiosity about space.这本书满足了我对太空的好奇心。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
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”。
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。
Grammar Note
不规则动词，过去式和过去分词为fed
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。
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。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
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