brood
brood 英 [bru:d] 美 [brud]
vt. 孵；焦虑 n. 一窝；一伙
进行时:brooding 过去式:brooded 过去分词:brooded 第三人称单数:broods 名词复数:broods
- A brood is a group of young born at the same time — like a brood of chicks — but your parents might use the word for you and your siblings: "We're taking the whole brood to the movies tonight."
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- vt. 孵；焦虑
- n. 一窝；一伙
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1. You're not still brooding over what he said, are you?
你不是还在为他的话闷闷不乐吧？
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2. The hen brought off a brood of young.
母鸡孵出了一窝小鸡.
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3. It is time for hens to brood.
该是母鸡孵蛋的时候了.
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4. Speak out. Don't just brood over things.
你有什么事就说吧, 别圈在心里.
- brood (n.) Old English brod "offspring of egg-laying animals, hatchlings, young birds hatched in one nest," from Proto-Germanic *brod (source also of Middle Dutch broet, Old High German bruot, German Brut "brood"), etymologically "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from root *bhreu- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn." Meaning "human offspring, children of one family" is from c. 1300.
- brood (v.) mid-15c., "sit on eggs for the purpose of hatching them," from brood (n.). The figurative meaning "meditate long and anxiously" (to "incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1570s, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc. Related: Brooded; brooding. Brood mare "female horse kept for breeding" is from 1829.
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