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单词 force-feed
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Definition of force-feed in English:

force-feed

verbˌfɔːsˈfiːdˈfɔrsˌfid
[with object]
  • 1Force (a person or animal) to eat food.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
    • There's a whole series of videos chronicling what happens when he force-feeds his students homemade root beer, for god's sake!
    • In a protest against the British activities throughout Ireland, Ashe went on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison where the authorities attempted to force-feed him.
    • Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG.
    • But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
    • Toddlers from the age of 18 months have a real surge of independence, and food can become a battleground, so resist the urge to force-feed your child.
    • By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
    • Lee also force-fed three patients and shouted and screamed at colleagues and residents of Edenfield Nursing Home between 1985 and 1986.
    • ‘For the most part, they put them in isolation and threaten to force-feed people,’ Kateel said.
    • He force-fed the baby, struck her on the legs, hands and buttocks and made the 13-month-old stand unsupported for long periods of time to make her walk.
    • We ask those who force-feed geese and ducks to stop carrying out this abusive practice.
    • Reports indicate he has been beaten and force-fed in custody.
    • Independent monitoring groups said he was force-fed unidentified medicines.
    • Even if someone force-feeds me Valium, even if I chase it with vodka, even if I'm punched in the face before takeoff, I remain petrified.
    • When I went on hunger strike to express my faith, they force-fed me.
    • He would keep the upper one open sometimes; talking to me, watching me, force-feeding me bits of food.
    • Maybe I should start force-feeding her so she'll get fat and slow and perhaps nicer?
    • Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
    • Eventually he learned to eat again, but until that happened I got to experience the wonder and joy of force-feeding a freaked-out cat.
    • The country's hospitals are full of women who were force-fed as children.
    1. 1.1 Impose or force (information or ideology) on someone.
      with two objects those teaching our kids should not be force-feeding them political ideas
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such tactics may seem innocuous (even funny) as isolated incidents; the problems are only apparent when ads are multiplied by thousands and constantly force-fed to the public.
      • It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
      • The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous.
      • But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
      • And it's all because of 10 years of force-feeding the public instead of giving them what they want.
      • We don't need to be force-fed the opinions of the writers of these publications.
      • Instead of watching a comedy with sinister undertones, we're force-fed a melodrama with no tones at all.
      • By saturating the airwaves, candidates and news directors could force-feed information to all but the few Americans who eschewed TV altogether.
      • The public have no clue, as the people who create these problems are not on the hierarchic list of news, which we are, force-fed.
      • We're just parroting and lampooning pop culture and current events because there's so much stuff that we were force-fed when we grew up.
      • Since the right does not require the aid of government to force-feed our views down the throats of an unwilling public, enacting this legislation is the ultimate win-win situation for Republicans and the rest of the right.
      • It doesn't bother me - I feel better not force-feeding people something to promote my new CD.
      • The film's final half-hour is a curiosity, and not a successful one - a prolonged, needless epilogue which force-feeds us a catharsis that feels as false as it is extraneous to an otherwise fine story.
      • This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
      • It is time for a diet of sanity in New Zealand politics, and we will force-feed it to the doctrinaire weirdos over there on the Government benches as soon as they fly the white flag.
      • The US government were co-conspirators with the media, who wanted to force-feed us a Joan of Arc.
      • The instruction I received as a child force-fed me the notion that the Pope is infallible, yet perhaps John Paul II's legacy will show us the humanity, the fallibility of the human condition.
      • The January detox craze simply looks like a more intense outburst of the healthy eating/living obsession that we are force-fed all year round.
      • The saddest sight one encounters in a tour of the NMA is a schoolchild sitting at one of these terminals being force-fed a diet of propaganda.
      • I wanted them to have the opportunity to choose their own beliefs instead of being force-fed the most popular one.
 
 

Definition of force-feed in US English:

force-feed

verbˈfɔrsˌfidˈfôrsˌfēd
[with object]
  • 1Force (a person or animal) to eat.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We ask those who force-feed geese and ducks to stop carrying out this abusive practice.
    • The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
    • Lee also force-fed three patients and shouted and screamed at colleagues and residents of Edenfield Nursing Home between 1985 and 1986.
    • He force-fed the baby, struck her on the legs, hands and buttocks and made the 13-month-old stand unsupported for long periods of time to make her walk.
    • Eventually he learned to eat again, but until that happened I got to experience the wonder and joy of force-feeding a freaked-out cat.
    • Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
    • He would keep the upper one open sometimes; talking to me, watching me, force-feeding me bits of food.
    • ‘For the most part, they put them in isolation and threaten to force-feed people,’ Kateel said.
    • When I went on hunger strike to express my faith, they force-fed me.
    • Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG.
    • The country's hospitals are full of women who were force-fed as children.
    • There's a whole series of videos chronicling what happens when he force-feeds his students homemade root beer, for god's sake!
    • But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
    • Maybe I should start force-feeding her so she'll get fat and slow and perhaps nicer?
    • Toddlers from the age of 18 months have a real surge of independence, and food can become a battleground, so resist the urge to force-feed your child.
    • In a protest against the British activities throughout Ireland, Ashe went on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison where the authorities attempted to force-feed him.
    • Reports indicate he has been beaten and force-fed in custody.
    • Independent monitoring groups said he was force-fed unidentified medicines.
    • Even if someone force-feeds me Valium, even if I chase it with vodka, even if I'm punched in the face before takeoff, I remain petrified.
    • By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
    1. 1.1with two objects Impose or force (information or ideology) upon (someone)
      no group has the right to force-feed its beliefs on her
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is time for a diet of sanity in New Zealand politics, and we will force-feed it to the doctrinaire weirdos over there on the Government benches as soon as they fly the white flag.
      • We don't need to be force-fed the opinions of the writers of these publications.
      • Instead of watching a comedy with sinister undertones, we're force-fed a melodrama with no tones at all.
      • The US government were co-conspirators with the media, who wanted to force-feed us a Joan of Arc.
      • The January detox craze simply looks like a more intense outburst of the healthy eating/living obsession that we are force-fed all year round.
      • Since the right does not require the aid of government to force-feed our views down the throats of an unwilling public, enacting this legislation is the ultimate win-win situation for Republicans and the rest of the right.
      • But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
      • The saddest sight one encounters in a tour of the NMA is a schoolchild sitting at one of these terminals being force-fed a diet of propaganda.
      • This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
      • The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous.
      • I wanted them to have the opportunity to choose their own beliefs instead of being force-fed the most popular one.
      • It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
      • Such tactics may seem innocuous (even funny) as isolated incidents; the problems are only apparent when ads are multiplied by thousands and constantly force-fed to the public.
      • And it's all because of 10 years of force-feeding the public instead of giving them what they want.
      • It doesn't bother me - I feel better not force-feeding people something to promote my new CD.
      • The public have no clue, as the people who create these problems are not on the hierarchic list of news, which we are, force-fed.
      • By saturating the airwaves, candidates and news directors could force-feed information to all but the few Americans who eschewed TV altogether.
      • The film's final half-hour is a curiosity, and not a successful one - a prolonged, needless epilogue which force-feeds us a catharsis that feels as false as it is extraneous to an otherwise fine story.
      • The instruction I received as a child force-fed me the notion that the Pope is infallible, yet perhaps John Paul II's legacy will show us the humanity, the fallibility of the human condition.
      • We're just parroting and lampooning pop culture and current events because there's so much stuff that we were force-fed when we grew up.
 
 
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