feed

英 [fi?d] 美[fid]

CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?feeds;過去式:?fed;過去分詞:?fed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?feeding;

feed 喂食

來自food的動(dòng)詞形式。

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 foeea, 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.

2. He began to feed in the spaghetti, carefully separating the strands.: 他開始放入意大利面，小心翼翼地將面一縷縷分開。

3. To keep their bees from wandering, beekeepers feed them sugar solutions.: 為了防止蜜蜂迷路，養(yǎng)蜂人給它們喝糖水。

4. She criticizes me for the way I feed or change him.: 她批評(píng)我不會(huì)給他喂奶、不會(huì)換尿布。

5. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.: 毛蟲以各類樹木、灌木和植物為食。