bottle-fed

/ˈbɒt.əl.fiːd/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈbɑː.t̬əl.fiːd/ (ame, ipa)

bottle-fed — 動詞

  • bottle-fedpresent simple I / you / we / they
  • bottle-feds3rd person singular
  • bottle-feding-ing form
  • bottle-fededpast simple

1. to give a baby or young animal milk from a bottle rather than letting it drink f

1.動詞及物 / 不及物B1
釋義

用奶瓶餵

以奶瓶哺餵嬰兒或幼小動物

to give a baby or young animal milk from a bottle rather than letting it drink from its mother's breast

例句

Yuna bottle-fed her newborn daughter for six months because breastfeeding was too painful.

Yuna 用奶瓶餵了她剛出生的女兒六個月，因為親餵實在太痛了。

bottle-feed + direct object (baby)

The orphaned puppies were bottle-fed every three hours by the shelter staff.

那群失去母親的小狗由收容所人員每三小時用奶瓶餵一次。

passive: be bottle-fed + by [carer]

同義詞
  • formula-feed

    more specific — implies using prepared formula rather than expressed breast milk in a bottle

反義詞
  • breastfeed

    the opposite action — feeding a baby directly from the mother's breast

文法句型

bottle-feed + baby

bottle-feed + kitten / puppy

be bottle-fed

用法筆記

The base form is 'bottle-feed'; 'bottle-fed' is the past tense and past participle. The passive construction is very common (e.g., 'the baby was bottle-fed').

常見錯誤

❌I bottle-feed my baby many milk.
✅I bottle-fed my baby a lot of milk.
💡'feed' takes an object but 'milk' is not the direct object; the baby is. You feed the baby, not the milk.

bottle-fed — 形容詞