- 1親餵、哺母乳(中國大陸較常說母乳餵養)
If a woman breast-feeds, she feeds her baby with milk from her own breast, not from a bottle. You can say it with no object (she breast-feeds) or with one (she breast-feeds the baby). The spelling often keeps the , breast-feed; breastfeeding is the usual noun for the whole practice. Though actually, people sometimes use the word loosely for any feeding with a mother's milk, even from a bottle after she has pumped it. In careful talk, that is bottle-feeding; breast-feeding is feeding at the breast. It is a normal family and hospital word, not a rude one, though some people feel shy and say nurse the baby instead. Fathers and other cannot breast-feed in the strict sense.
「breast-feed」指女性用自己的乳房餵孩子母乳,而不是用奶瓶。它可以不加受詞,例如「she breast-feeds」,也可以加受詞,例如「she breast-feeds the baby」。動詞常保留連字號,表示整體做法的名詞則通常用「breastfeeding」。有人會把擠出來、再用奶瓶餵的母乳也說成「breast-feed」,但嚴格來說那叫「bottle-feeding」,即用奶瓶餵食。它是一般家庭與醫院都用的字,不粗俗,只是有人覺得不好意思,會改說「nurse the baby」。嚴格說,爸爸或其他照顧者不能「breast-feed」。
組成breast + feed: breast = the part of the body that makes milk, feed = to give food.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- breastfeed
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。