spoon-fed
灌输式的,灌输式,用勺子喂养,用勺子喂的
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- : fed with a spoon.
- : treated with excessive solicitude; pampered.
- : given no opportunity to act or think for oneself: Having always been spoon-fed, I couldn't meet the challenge of college.
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It just really fed into a lot of pathologies I had going for me.
His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.
Using a heatproof slotted spoon, remove the shallots to a paper towel-lined plate.
The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.
No congratulations for those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and then blame the poor for being poor.
So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.
I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.
Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies.