feeding

noun

1. 喂食；饲养；施肥
   the act of giving food to a person, an animal or a plant
   1. breast/bottle feeding
      母乳 / 奶瓶喂养

1. VERB 养;喂;饲养
   If you feed a person or animal, you give them food to eat and sometimes actually put it in their mouths.
   1. We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds...
      我们拿了几片陈面包来喂鸟。
   2. She fed him a cookie...
      她给他吃了一块饼干。
   3. In that part of the world you can feed cattle on almost any green vegetable or fruit...
      在那个地方，几乎任何绿色蔬菜或水果都可以给牛吃。
   4. He spooned the ice cream into a cup and fed it to her.
      他用勺子把冰激凌舀进杯子，喂给她吃。
   5. Feed is also a noun.
      
   6. She's had a good feed.
      她大吃了一顿。
2. VERB 供养，养活(家庭或群体)
   To feed a family or a community means to supply food for them.
   1. Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.
      养活饥肠辘辘的一家人花费很大。
   2. ...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
3. VERB (动物)吃食，进食
   When an animal feeds, it eats or drinks something.
   1. After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding...
      几天后毛虫停止进食。
   2. Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.
      蛞蝓以腐烂的动植物为食。
4. V-ERG 吃奶;给…喂奶
   When a baby feeds, or when you feed it, it drinks breast milk or milk from a bottle.
   1. When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often...
      婴儿渴的时候，吃奶就会更频繁。
   2. 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。
5. N-MASS 饲料
   Animal feed is food given to animals, especially farm animals.
   1. 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。
   2. ...poultry feed.
      家禽饲料
6. VERB 源源不断地供给;输送
   To feed something to a place, means to supply it to that place in a steady flow.
   1. ...blood vessels that feed blood to the brain.
      将血液输送到大脑的血管
   2. ...gas fed through pipelines.
      通过管道输送的燃气
7. VERB 将…放到，将…投入(容器或装置中)
   If you feed something into a container or piece of equipment, you put it into it.
   1. 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。
   2. She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.
      她将文件放入碎纸机。
8. VERB 向…泄露(秘密);向…灌输,向…通报(虚假信息)
   If someone feeds you false or secret information, they deliberately tell it to you.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
9. VERB 加深，加强(厌恶或渴望)
   If you feed someone's dislike or desire for something, you make it stronger.
   1. 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。
10. VERB 给…施肥
    If you feed a plant, you add substances to it to make it grow well.
    1. Feed plants to encourage steady growth.
       给植物施肥促使其不断生长。
11. VERB (因…而)壮大;(从…中)得到滋养
    If one thing feeds on another, it becomes stronger as a result of the other thing's existence.
    1. The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.
       酗酒和犯罪彼此助长。
12. VERB 将(信息)输入(计算机)
    To feed information into a computer means to gradually put it into it.
    1. 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。
13. to bite the hand that feeds you → see: bite

1. New fathers love bottle feeding their babies.
   刚当上爸爸的人喜欢用奶瓶喂他们的宝宝。
2. Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.
   养活饥肠辘辘的一家人花费很大。
3. After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding
   几天后毛虫停止进食。
4. 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。
5. She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.
   她将文件放入碎纸机。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. The mud is a feeding ground for large numbers of birds.
   大批鸟儿来这块泥地觅食。
9. They spend hours feeding on the ocean floor.
   它们花好几个小时在海底进食。
10. Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
    不要想当然地认为你的宝宝一闹就是要吃奶。
11. I'm feeding our horses the same mash the O'Briens used to win Gold Cups.
    我现在给我们的马喂的糊状饲料和奥布赖恩家族夺得金杯的赛马吃的饲料是一样的。
12. The longest chapter in almost any book on baby care is on feeding
    几乎所有关于婴儿护理的书籍中内容最多的一章都是喂养。
13. He spent more on feeding the dog than he spent on feeding himself
    他喂狗花的钱比自己的饮食开销还多。
14. Feeding is not a problem because the birds range over such a large area
    这种鸟活动的范围很大，因此觅食不成问题。
15. He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route
    他打开装黄油饼干的蓝色大罐子，开始沿路给狗喂食。
16. Tip the bottle up so it's in the same position as it would be when feeding the baby
    按照喂婴儿时的姿势倾斜奶瓶。
17. The chicks are feeding.
    小鸡正在吃食。
18. The teacher found that nothing was feeding back to him from his pupils.
    那位教师发觉学生们对他的讲解毫无反应。
19. We all know there's a lack of food in the world, but let's move on from generalities to the particular problems of feeding the people of this country.
    我们都知道全球都粮食短缺，但让我们从一般情况转到具体问题上来吧：怎样来喂饱这个国家的人民。
20. A large group of chimpanzees were feeding.
    一大群黑猩猩在吃东西。
21. She was feeding the baby with porridge.
    她正在给小孩子喂麦片粥。
22. Sound beans from storage flow into a feeding hopper that regulates their flow into the plant.
    完整的大豆从仓库输运到喂料斗里，喂料斗可调节大豆运入工厂的数量。
23. He looks half starved and wants feeding up.
    他看上去一副忍饥挨饿的样子，需要多吃点东西。
24. She was feeding a baby at the breast.
    她在给婴儿喂奶。
25. Mother grey whale and its three-month old baby heading for feeding area.
    母灰鲸带着三个月大的幼鲸游向食物丰富的海域。
26. The experience from the teaching of English to foreign learners is feeding back to the teaching profession in britain.
    教授外国学生学习英语的经验正反过来推动着英国本身的英语教学工作。
27. A lot ideas are feeding back from agriculture into botany.
    农业学方面的许多概念正在反过来对植物学起了促进作用。
28. This will now allow accurate assessment, measurement and evaluation of breastfeeding and complementary feeding.
    现在将可能对母乳喂养和补充喂养进行准确评估、衡量和评价。
29. The reason for feeding effect improvement of the gating system is analyzed preliminarily.
    对该浇注系统提高补缩效果的原因进行了初步分析。
30. The baby needs feeding.
    这婴儿需要喂了。

noun

1. the act of consuming food

   Synonym:    eating

2. the act of supplying food and nourishment

   Synonym:    alimentation