feed

英[fiːd] 美[fid]

反义词

第三人称单数: feeds;过去式: fed;过去分词: fed;现在分词: feeding;

feed 喂食

来自food的动词形式。

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 foeða, 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.: 他开始放入意大利面，小心翼翼地将面一缕缕分开。

3. To keep their bees from wandering, beekeepers feed them sugar solutions.: 为了防止蜜蜂迷路，养蜂人给它们喝糖水。

5. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants.: 毛虫以各类树木、灌木和植物为食。