bottle-feed['bɔtlfi:d]

• vt.
  • 用奶瓶喂养或人工喂养(婴儿或幼畜等)：

    She was breast-fed and not bottle-fed.

    她是吃母奶而不是吃牛奶长大的。

  • 悉心教诲，精心培养：

    to bottle-feed a new salesman on how to make door-to-door calls

    悉心培养一位新推销员如何挨家挨户地推销

  • [比喻]溺爱,宠爱 [亦作bottlefeed]
• 变形:

  vt.bottle-fed.bottle-fed