- 1強迫灌食；強制餵食
To force-feed someone is to make them eat by putting food into their mouth or down their throat when they cannot eat, or do not want to. Doctors may do this if a person is too ill to swallow. It is also done to some farm animals, and people argue about whether that is cruel. The word is strong and a little clinical. Though actually, speakers also stretch it: a teacher who “force-feeds” facts is giving too much, too fast — no food is going into a mouth. The first, physical meaning is the one this entry is about.
Force-feed 指強迫別人吃東西，也就是在對方不想吃或吃不下時，把食物直接送進他的嘴巴或喉嚨。醫生在病人已經無法吞嚥時可能會這樣做；有些農場動物也會被這樣餵食，因此有人爭論這是否殘忍。這個字語氣很強，也帶點冷冰冰的醫療感。
人們也會比喻使用，例如老師「強迫灌輸」知識，指一次塞太多、太快，但並沒有真的送食物進嘴巴。這裡講的是原本、字面的意思。
組成force (to make someone do something against their will) + feed (to give food). Written with a hyphen.
原始詞典資料3 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。
force-feedverb
- 1
To force a person or animal to ingest food, for example by stuffing food down the throat, or using a tube passed into the stomach.
- They were ordered to force-feed the prisoners on hunger strike.
- 2
More broadly, also referring to forcing the drinking of a beverage or other liquid
- Mr and Mrs Rakmil, are rocking him back and forth on the carpet while Mrs Brody Nina's mother is trying to forcefeed him with another beer bottle.
- I finally poured water in a glass and shouted at him, "Keep your cool, man! You're more scared than the rest of us." And I force-fed him the water.
- 3
To force someone to take in information or accept an ideology.
- The teachers at this school tend to force-feed their students information, rather than encourage critical thinking and debate.
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。