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🔑 feed BrE /fiːd / NAmE /fiːd / verb present simple - I / you / we / they feed BrE /fiːd / NAmE /fiːd / present simple - he / she / it feeds BrE /fiːdz / NAmE /fiːdz / past simple fed BrE /fed / NAmE /fed / past participle fed BrE /fed / NAmE /fed / -ing form feeding BrE /ˈfiːdɪŋ / NAmE /ˈfiːdɪŋ / ➤ give /eat food 提供/吃食物 🔑 [ T ] to give food to a person or an animal ◆ ~ sb /sth /yourself Have you fed the cat yet ? ◆ The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth . ◆ ~ sb /sth (on ) sth The cattle are fed (on ) barley .◆ ~ sth to sb /sth The barley is fed to the cattle . baby birth child dummy , feed , incubator , nappy , pram , premature , teethe
🔑 [ I ] of a baby or an animal 婴儿或动物 to eat food ◆ Slugs and snails feed at night . ➡ see also feed on/off sth at feed 🔑 [ T ] ~ sb to provide food for a family or group of people ◆ They have a large family to feed . ◆ There's enough here to feed an army . ➤ plant 植物 🔑 [ T ] ~ sth to give a plant a special substance to make it grow ◆ Feed the plants once a week . ➤ give advice /information 提供意见/信息 [ T ] to give advice , information , etc . to sb /sth ◆ ~ sb sth We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media . ◆ ~ sth to sb Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media . ➤ supply 供给 [ T ] to supply sth to sb /sth ◆ The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable . ◆ ~ B into A Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable . ➤ put into machine 放进机器中 [ T ] to put or push sth into or through a machine ◆ ~ A (with B )He fed the meter with coins . ◆ ~ B into A He fed coins into the meter . ◆ ~ sth into /through sth The fabric is fed through the machine . ➤ satisfy need 满足需要 [ T ] ~ sth to satisfy a need , desire , etc . and keep it strong ◆ For drug addicts , the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else . ● ˌfeed your ˈface (informal usually disapproving to eat a lot of food or too much food ● bite the hand that ˈfeeds you to harm sb who has helped you or supported you ● ˌfeed ˈback (into /to sth )to have an influence on the development of sth by reacting to it in some way ◆ What the audience tells me feeds back into my work . ● ˌfeed (sth )↔ˈback (to sb )to give information or opinions about sth , especially so that it can be improved ◆ Test results will be fed back to the schools . ● ˈfeed into sth to have an influence on the development of sth ◆ The report's findings will feed into company policy . ● ˈfeed on /off sth (of an animal 动物 to eat sth ◆ Butterflies feed on the flowers of garden plants . (often disapproving to become stronger because of sth else ◆ Racism feeds on fear . ● ˌfeed ˈthrough (to sb /sth )to reach sb /sth after going through a process or system ◆ It will take time for the higher rates to feed through to investors . ● ˌfeed sb↔ˈup (BrE to give a lot of food to sb to make them fatter or stronger 🔑 feed BrE /fiːd / NAmE /fiːd / noun ➤ meal for baby /animal 婴儿/动物的食物 [ C ] a meal of milk for a young baby ; a meal for an animal ◆ her morning feed ➤ for animals /plants 动植物 [ U , C ] food for animals or plants ◆ winter feed for the horses ➤ for machine 机器 [ U ] material supplied to a machine [ C ] a pipe , device , etc . which supplies a machine with sth ◆ the cold feed to the water cylinder ◆ The printer has an automatic paper feed . ➤ large meal 丰盛膳食 [ C ] (informal a large meal ◆ They needed a bath and a good feed . ➤ television programmes 电视节目 [ U ] (NAmE television programmes that are sent from a central station to other stations in a network ; the system of sending out these programmes ◆ network feed ➤ website 网站 a special feature on a blog social networking feed reader = a piece of software that displays this information ) ◆ an RSS feed
