- 1吃得飽、營養充足的;(說大人時)有時帶點「養得白白胖胖」的玩笑意味
Getting plenty of good food, and looking like it. The word is not really about one big meal — it is about a steady state over time, so it describes people, animals and sometimes whole populations. Two flavours to notice. Said about a child, an animal or a group of people, it is warm and slightly serious: it means they are not going hungry, which is the opposite of . Aid workers and news reports use it that way. Said about a grown adult, especially a comfortable-looking man, it can be a gentle joke, hinting that he is a bit round and has never missed a meal — 'a well-fed businessman'. Tone and context tell you which one is meant, and the joking use is teasing rather than cruel. It also carries a faint sense of being looked after by someone else, because fed is passive — someone did the feeding. That is why it sounds natural about a baby, a dog, or soldiers, and a little odd about a person who cooks for themselves.
「well-fed」指吃得充足，外表也看得出來。它不是指某一餐，而是一段時間的穩定狀態，所以可以用來形容人、動物，甚至整個族群。
用在孩子、動物或一群人身上時，語氣溫暖、稍微嚴肅，表示他們不挨餓，和營養不良相反，救援人員和新聞報導都這樣用。用在成年人身上，特別是看起來富足的男人，常是玩笑話，形成「a well-fed + 名詞」的用法，例如「a well-fed businessman」，意思是養得白白胖胖的生意人，帶點調侃，不帶惡意。語氣和語境會告訴你是哪一種意思。
字裡還帶著一點被別人照顧的感覺，因為 fed 是被動的，有人替你餵。所以說嬰兒、狗或士兵很自然，說自己煮飯的人就有點怪。
組成well (充分地) + fed (被餵飽的,feed 的過去分詞)。
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。
well-fedadj
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Properly or adequately fed or nourished.
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。