1. | [t] 给（人或动物）食物；喂养；饲养to give food to a person or an animal |
Have you fed the cat yet? 你喂了猫没有？ | |
The baby can't feed itself yet(= can't put food into its own mouth) . 这个婴儿还不能自己吃东西。 | |
The cattle are fed (on) barley. 牛要喂大麦。 | |
The barley is fed to the cattle. 牛喂的是大麦。 |
2. | [i] 进食to eat food |
Slugs and snails feed at night. 蛞蝓和蜗牛夜间进食。 |
3. | [t] ~ sb 养，养活（全家、一群人）to provide food for a family or group of people |
They have a large family to feed. 他们要养活一大家人。 | |
There's enough here to feed an army. 这儿的东西足以养活一支军队。 |
4. | [t] ~ sth 施（肥等）to give a plant a special substance to make it grow |
Feed the plants once a week. 每星期要给这些花草施一次肥。 |
5. | [t] 提供（意见或信息等）；灌输to give advice, information, etc. to sb/sth |
We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media. 媒体不断给我们灌输流言蜚语和猜测臆断。 | |
Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media. 媒体不断把流言蜚语和猜测臆断灌输给我们。 |
6. | [t] 供给；供应to supply sth to sb/sth |
The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable. 这条电线的电源是通过地下电缆传输的。 | |
Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable. 电力通过地下电缆传输到这条电线。 |
7. | [t] 把…放进机器；将…塞进机器to put or push sth into or through a machine |
He fed the meter with coins. 他把硬币投入停车计时收费器。 | |
He fed coins into the meter. 他把硬币投入停车计时收费器。 | |
The fabric is fed through the machine. 布料放进了机器。 |
8. | [t] ~ sth 满足（需要、愿望、欲望等）to satisfy a need, desire, etc. and keep it strong |
For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else. 对于吸毒者来说满足毒瘾胜过一切。 |
1. | [c] （婴儿的）一次喂奶，一餐；（动物的）一次喂给的饲料a meal of milk for a young baby; a meal for an animal |
her morning feed 她早上的一次喂奶 |
2. | [u][c] 动物的饲料；植物的肥料food for animals or plants |
winter feed for the horses 马的冬季饲料 |
3. | [u] （机器的）进料material supplied to a machine |
4. | [c] （机器的）进料装置，进料器a pipe, device, etc. which supplies a machine with sth |
the cold feed to the water cylinder 水缸的冷进水管 | |
The printer has an automatic paper feed. 这台打印机有自动进纸装置。 |
5. | [c] (informal) 丰盛的一餐a large meal |
They needed a bath and a good feed. 他们需要洗个澡，饱餐一顿。 |
6. | [u] （电视中心台）网络供给节目（系统）television programmes that are sent from a central station to other stations in a network; the system of sending out these programmes |
network feed 网络供给节目系统 |
