1Be aware of (a person or object) through touching or being touched.

她觉得有人碰到了她的肩膀。

1. 1.1 Be aware of (something happening) through physical sensation.
   感知，意识到（正在发生的事件）
   she felt the ground give way beneath her

   她感到脚下的地面在塌陷。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Sitting in the car on a wet afternoon, I felt the hairs prick up on the back of my neck.
   • She could feel the water begin to ebb away from her skin, and she felt her damp hair drying.
   • When she stepped out of the alley, she immediately felt the hair on the back of her neck prickle.
   • She could hear shallow breathing and felt the warmth of a body turn over.
   • He could still close his eyes and see her face, smell her hair and feel the touch of her hand on his.
   • A hand went up to her hair as she felt it falling out of the bun in wisps beside her temples.
   • A familiar Spring breeze blew past us and I felt my hair brushing against my face.
   • He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as he sensed that Lucas was nearby.
   • After a few minutes, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end like he was being watched.
   • While it is still winter, we can start to feel the change in climate upon us.
   • Cecil ran a soothing hand down her hair as he felt tears coursing down his own face.
   • He had just turned on the water and began shampooing his hair when he felt the door open.
   • She felt them braid her hair very tightly and then heard them take the scissors to it.
   • I didn't know what was going on, but apparently they had felt the vibrations from the quake and come out of the sand.
   • She found a rare empty seat and was walking toward it when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
   • I felt a strand of hair fall across my face and a moment later a tender hand brush it back into place.
   • She felt it remove the short ribbon binding her hair, felt the braid loosen and her blue tresses whip free.
   • Lise felt the vibrations on the ground coming closer.
   • When he hears a particularly fine piece, he says he can feel the hairs coming up on his arms.
2. 1.2 Examine or search by touch.
   摸着寻找；摸索
   he touched her head and felt her hair

   他摸到了她的头，抚摸着她的头发。

   no object he felt around for the matches

   他四处摸火柴。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I felt around under the bed for some kind of weapon: if they made one more move on him it'd be their last.
   • On her way down the stairs she felt inside her pocket to make sure she still had the keys.
   • Mac ran a hand over his short hair, then gently felt the bump on the back of his head.
   • She ran a hand through her hair and felt the cut where she had been roughed up by Derek.
   • In the afternoon Burginde rummaged amongst our wool sacks, feeling with her hands how much carded fleece was left.
   • I just keep feeling the hair in the back there and trying to get all the hair on the back of my neck off.
   • He backed away from the couch, and felt for the light switch.
   • Head to the first floor where the exhibitors have taken individual rooms to get you to see, touch, and feel the products.
   • I felt around and found some old newspapers and tried to cover myself.

   Synonyms

   touch, stroke, caress, fondle, finger, thumb, handle, manipulate, fiddle with, play with, toy with, maul

   put one's hand on, lay a finger on

   informal paw

   test, try, try out, assess
3. 1.3no object Be capable of sensation.
   有知觉，能感知
   the dead cannot feel

   死人是没有知觉的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Collections of people do not have unique consciousness or identities: ‘society’ and ‘the people’ do not feel, need, think, or have rights.
   • I don't feel, can't feel, don't want to feel.
4. 1.4no object, with complement Give a sensation of a particular physical quality when touched.
   给人某种感觉；摸上去给人某种手感
   the wool feels soft

   这种羊毛手感很柔软。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Fleece is made from polyester and is designed to feel soft, warm and elastic.
   • She gave me her hand, which felt cold, like the skin of a serpent.
   • Placing his hand on the creature's neck, Erik let out a small smile as he felt how soft it was.
   • My clothes feel wet.
   • My energy levels appear to be rising and my skin is losing its papery pallor and feels softer.
   • The lightweight, non-oily formula absorbs instantly so skin feels clean, soft and smooth.
   • If your lawn feels soft and spongy, chances are you've got thatch.
   • Rest assured that the material used in this is of a much higher quality, and feels good to the touch.
   • The sand beneath my feet felt so good, soft and cool while the ocean water came up to my ankles.
   • The NRC developed a new enzyme, designed to make hemp feel softer but remain durable.
   • It was deep and had wonderful hues of gold and other colors mingled in with it and it even felt soft to walk on.
   • Add powdered milk until dough feels soft, smooth, and not sticky.
   • I continued to feel relaxed all evening, my face had a healthy glow and my skin had never felt softer.
   • It rubs in quickly leaving your skin feeling softer after a few minutes.
   • Her palm feels warm and soft and smooth, and I know because I shook hands with her when I wished her good luck for her history exam.
   • The soft baby skin felt like silk and the bit of fuzz on the baby's head tickled Maya's hand.
   • Remove the garlic and continue cooking the aubergine for a further ten minutes, or until it feels soft and the skin is charred and black.

   Synonyms

   seem, appear, strike one as
5. 1.5feel something outinformal Investigate something cautiously.
   〈非正式〉谨慎调查某事，把某事弄清楚
   they want to feel out the situation

   他们想摸清情况。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Over the next four years he made further visits to New York to feel out the market.
   • After you feel the situation out you can take appropriate action.
   • An analyst reported that elements in the army were feeling out support from foreign governments for a move against the president.
   • They were cautiously feeling things out, but when the conversation didn't blow up in their faces, their voices grew more confident.
6. 1.6feel someone upinformal Fondle someone surreptitiously and without their consent, for one's own sexual stimulation.
   〈非正式〉（为寻求性刺激在未经对方同意的情况下）偷偷地摸弄某人
   Example sentencesExamples

   • They groped us, felt us up and thrust their pelvic regions into our backsides.
   • He wants you all to himself, he doesn't even like other people looking at you, much less feeling you up,’ he said in a sexy voice, and pulled her close to him.
   • So, if you want to get close, maybe try to feel out her worldview before you feel her up.
   • But if you were felt up at a high school party because you got a little too drunk to say no, maybe we should put you in jail.
   • Yeah, he was just feeling you up and getting off with you!
   • After Evan had felt me up, I really didn't like people touching me.
   • He taught me and my sister backgammon and felt us up.
   • While waiting in queue to buy their tickets, they were mobbed by local men, who manhandled them, pushed them into a corner, pressed against them and felt them up.
   • I spin my head to see who felt me up, and it's just a woman with no distinguishable features who looks like she's on her way to work too.
   • We start making out and I started feeling her up.

   Synonyms

   caress, stroke, pat, pet, pull, finger, touch, tickle, twiddle, play with, massage, knead

2Experience (an emotion or sensation)

我感到一阵激动。

我们对言论自由反应强烈。

1. 2.1no object, with complement Consider oneself to be in a particular state or exhibiting particular qualities.
   觉得，认为自己处于某状态（或具有某素质）
   he doesn't feel obliged to visit every weekend

   他不认为自己每个周末都得去做客。

   she felt such a fool

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The survey highlighted that 68 per cent of the residents feel safer now than they did before the Neighbourhood Wardens started.
   • These are the people who rock up to class each week just because it makes them feel dead sexy.
   • It was helpful, but I felt a failure if I couldn't make him fall around laughing.
   • The only thing I felt capable of doing was locking myself in a room and making a record.
   • He pulled his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around his legs feeling very out of place.
   • Perhaps in some way they feel abandoned and search for someone who is always going to need them.
   • They had felt capable of carrying out the work which was being sought.
   • I twisted my hair up in a knot and suddenly, in the soft light, felt quite beautiful.
   • After losing more than a stone since the Open, he also feels in the best physical shape of his life.
   • Parents feel helpless in today's changing world and wonder how to cope with the truant child.
   • But following off-season surgery to his wrist and shoulder, he feels ready for the physical demands of Super League.
   • But, just a few months shy of his 28th birthday, as well as reaching his peak physically, he feels that he is at his mental best, too.
   • There's no gate at the entrance and students just don't feel safe.
   • When you feel comfortable on one foot with your eyes open, close them.
   • I feel better and more capable, and more attractive now than I have ever felt in my life.
   • The capital side have been excelling in ladies football for the past few seasons, however this team now feels capable of taking on anyone.
   • Her people are crying in front of her and she felt out of place.
   • Jones says it is not just about dealing with employees that feel under pressure.

   Synonyms

   consider, think, regard, look on as, view as, see as, hold to be, judge, adjudge, rate as, deem to be, account, esteem
2. 2.2feel up tono object Have the strength and energy to do or deal with.
   有力量（或有精力）做（或应付）
   after the accident she didn't feel up to driving

   事故之后她开车力不从心。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Today's technicians welcome the focus on their jobs and feel up to the challenge.
   • She asked if we needed any help, and I said we could maybe use a hand if she felt up to it.
   • I have not felt up to writing this description of events until today.
   • Be gentle with yourself if you don't feel up to exercising.
3. 2.3feel oneselfusually with negative Be healthy and well.
   觉得身体健康
   Ruth was not quite feeling herself

   露丝觉得身体有些不适。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Two decades ago she was a highly driven academic - until the fateful morning when she got out of bed feeling not quite herself.
   • I wasn't really concentrating and I wasn't feeling myself.
4. 2.4 Be strongly affected by.
   情绪受…的影响
   he didn't feel the loss of his mother so keenly

   他从未如此强烈地感到丧母之痛。

   investors who have felt the effects of the recession

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Art is a luxury, so our industry often feels an economic downturn before other industries.
   • When trading started again on Monday morning, the financial impact of the failure was quickly felt.
   • As a committed family man he would have felt those tragedies keenly.
   • Smith died in 2003 of a fatal stab wound to the heart and his departure has been felt around the world.
   • We're all feeling the loss of heroes that we love.
   • The effects of climate change continue to be felt around the world, with increasing severity.
5. 2.5feel forno object Have compassion for.
   同情，怜悯
   poor woman—I do feel for her

   可怜的女人——我确实很同情她。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We feel deeply for the plight of the refugees.
   • He genuinely feels for his people, and he wants them to be in a position where they don't have to suffer any longer.
   • People have truly felt for the victims and responded with money and in other ways.
   • He does not feel for the families of the dead or for the thirty-five million of us who live in poverty.

   Synonyms

   sympathize with, be sorry for, pity, feel pity for, feel sympathy for, feel compassion for, empathize with, identify with, be moved by, weep for, grieve for, sorrow for

   commiserate with, condole with

   archaic compassion

3with clause Have a belief or impression, especially without an identifiable reason.

她认为那个女子肯定不喜欢她。

1. 3.1 Hold an opinion.
   认为
   I felt I could make a useful contribution

   我认为我能起到积极作用。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He said he felt the incident was a form of discrimination and had left him angry and wanting an explanation.
   • He feels the protest has achieved what it set out to do and is hopeful the government will cut the fuel tax.
   • Everyone I contacted in my highly unscientific poll feels this election was more than a defeat.
   • Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded.
   • My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults.
   • In the end, Lee felt the parties were looking to exploit his difficulties for publicity.
   • But he felt the markets might lose their special appeal if they became a routine, weekly event.
   • Was his life at the ranch so difficult he felt it necessary to leave?
   • He felt the changes in lifestyle and especially in farming in recent years was a factor.
   • We felt these meetings did give people the opportunity to clarify points and make their views known.
   • Calderwood felt Aberdeen's performance was decent up until the goal but degenerated thereafter.
   • But he felt the management change would see the service finally getting back on the right track.
   • McLeish admitted it had been a tough election but felt the contest had delivered him a mandate.
   • Cooper also feels Ferguson's success has sparked a sharp increase in his detractors.
   • He said he felt a change of direction was needed when he took over at the pub, which had stiff competition.
   • Former party official Matthew Taylor feels that conference has become ‘ritualistic and pointless’.
   • He felt the business market between Edinburgh and Europe was under-served.
   • Interviews with a number of children and their parents emphasised how successful they felt the event to be.
   • In their first eight games, they dropped 11 points, and Aidie Moran felt changes had to be made.
   • I felt the programme focussed a bit too much on what it was like to be a ‘man’ in 2005.

   Synonyms

   believe, think, consider it right, consider, fancy, be of the opinion, hold, maintain, judge, deem

   suspect, suppose, assume, presume, conclude, come to the conclusion that

   North American figure

   informal reckon

1usually in singular An act of touching something to examine it.

1. 1.1mass noun The sense of touch.
   触觉
   he worked by feel rather than using his eyes

   他是靠触觉而不是靠眼睛工作的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Parts of plants are generally described as ‘succulent’ if they are particularly fleshy, not woody, to the feel and noticeably watery if squashed.
   • Their bumpy quality comes from the raised relief so blind people can identify different bills by feel.
   • The best way to tell a ripe avocado is by feel.
   • It was fairly rough to the feel, and looked like it had been made out of crushed granite, cement, and water mixed together.

   Synonyms

   touch, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, feeling, feeling one's way, contact

   texture

2usually in singular A sensation given by an object or material when touched.

手感像棉布的尼龙布。

1. 2.1 The impression given by something.
   给人留下的印象；感觉
   a cafe with a cosmopolitan feel

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The vocals soar over the mix adding to the epic feel of each track.
   • Instead the Cat and Fiddle had an almost homely feel about it.
   • But the film's authentic feel is undermined by a series of political compromises.
   • The interior has the homely feel of a comfortable country retreat rather than a royal palace.
   • The stadium's multitude of glass creates a light, airy feel.
   • Mr Taylor said: " The materials were specially chosen to create an airy feel.
   • "Unicorn Dream " is one of these and has the airy feel of a Scandinavian piece.
   • But what makes this movie so much fun is the authentic retro feel.
   • The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
   • The seats are very close together, and this lends an intimate, crowded feel to the place.
   • The first is to give an overall feel of the film.
   • Besides, it only adds to the gritty, realistic feel Bogdanovich was aiming for.

   Synonyms

   atmosphere, ambience, aura, mood, feeling, air, impression, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour

   informal vibrations, vibes, vibe

   rare subcurrent

3informal usually in singular Feelings of heightened emotion.