feed

• vt. 喂养；供给；放牧；抚养（家庭等）；靠…为生
• vi. 吃东西；流入
• n. 饲料；饲养；（动物或婴儿的）一餐

来自food的动词形式。

1. food for domestic livestock

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.

nourish, feed, graze

这些动词均含"提供所需食物，喂养"之意。

nourish： 指提供生长、健康或维持生存所必需的食物或养料，尤指用营养品促进生长。

feed： 普通用词，含义广泛。既可指给人或动物提供食物，又可指给植物以养料或为机器等加燃料等。

graze： 侧重指用正在生长的青草喂养牲畜。

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

They don't just feed the home they serve.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The man is already fed up with playing the piano.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

On one recent day, this doctor was Daniel Nadeau, wandering the cereal aisle with Allison Scott, giving her some ideas on how to feed kids who persistently avoid anything that is healthy.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

That study looked at nearly 28, 000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

2016年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

The-doctors response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love like humans do was a straight "Of course!" He went on to say that if love is defined as a long term commitment meaning dogs seek one another out when they're apart, they're happy

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" The child will immediately test your claim.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

He planted soybeans (大豆）sold as cattle feed

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He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle.

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This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world

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Each group over the coming decades will need to address different issues surrounding food production, storage and transportation, as well as consumer expectations, if we are to continue to feed all our people.

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Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

By replacing expensive grain feed with regenerative management practices, grass-fed farmers are insulated from jumps in the price of feed.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

No surprise then, it becomes a battle for us parents to feed our children ordinary fruit and vegetables.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

So they were providing more food to people, but also educating people on how to use them, and also educating people on how to feed their young children.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

White storks feed on locusts and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area's annual pony drift (迁移).

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

China's approach to protecting its environment while feeding its citizens " offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

From the moment a child is born, they interact with the world, looking at colours, feeding textures; constructing mental and physical images of what they see and experience.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

However,he would have to buy chicken feed with the money he made from the eggs.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

If you have a juicer, you can simply feed in frozen bananas and some berries or sliced fruit.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She may have fed on the body of a sheep which had also fallen over the edge.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

That first year, I started feeding peanuts to the blue jays, then the squirrels.

2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

The nursery team switches him every few days with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, the other is with mum-she never suspects.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The study, by researchers from seoul, south korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

Then one night, gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

This makes a fun activity for a children's party; they love feeding the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

While I was slow to accept that I would be the one to keep track of her shots, to schedule her vet appointments, to feed and clean her, misty knew this on day one.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And a survey conducted for Buzz Feed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Worse, the crucial income to feed yourself and your family and pay the bills has disappeared.

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.

媒体不断给我们灌输流言飞语和猜测臆断。

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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。

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The cattle are fed on barley.

这些牛要喂大麦。

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The cattle are fed barley.

这些牛要喂大麦。

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The barley is fed to the cattle.

牛喂的是大麦。

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Slugs and snails feed at night.

蛞蝓和蜗牛夜间进食。

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They have a large family to feed.

他们要养活一大家人。

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There's enough here to feed an army.

这儿的东西足以养活一支军队。

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Feed the plants once a week.

每星期要给这些花草施一次肥。

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Have you fed the cat yet?

你喂了猫没有？

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I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.

我对如何抱婴儿、如何给婴儿喂食一无所知。

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The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed.

谷物完全烂掉了，他们能将其派上的唯一用场就是作动物饲料。

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...poultry feed.

家禽饲料

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...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain.

将血液输送到大脑的血管

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...gas fed through pipelines.

通过管道输送的燃气

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He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player...

他从她手里接过光盘，放入播放机中。

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She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.

她将文件放入碎纸机。

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He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies...

他周围的人都在给他灌输可怕的谎言。

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At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.

至少有一个英国官员在向他提供机密情报。

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The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press.

离婚的事张扬出去，她十分痛苦，更加厌恶媒体了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Feed plants to encourage steady growth.

给植物施肥促使其不断生长。

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The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.

酗酒和犯罪彼此助长。

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An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer.

自动化气象站将风向信息输入计算机。

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When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often...

婴儿渴的时候，吃奶就会更频繁。

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Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.

蛞蝓以腐烂的动植物为食。

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After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding...

几天后毛虫停止进食。

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We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds...

我们拿了几片陈面包来喂鸟。

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She fed him a cookie...

她给他吃了一块饼干。

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Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.

养活饥肠辘辘的一家人花费很大。

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...a food reserve large enough to feed the Sudanese population for many months.

足够苏丹人吃好多个月的食物储备

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