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spoon-fed

/spoon-fed/US // ˈspunˌfɛd //

灌输式的,灌输式,用勺子喂养,用勺子喂的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • 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.