brooding
brooding 英 [ˈbru:dɪŋ]
adj. 沉思的；徘徊不去的 n. 孵卵
名词复数:broodings
- When you're dwelling on something, you're brooding about it — this can be thoughtful or morbidly obsessed.
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- adj. 沉思的；徘徊不去的
- n. 孵卵
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1. His mood shifted suddenly; his eyes turned brooding.
他的语气忽然一变，眼神转为沉思的神情。
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2. Some dinosaurs engaged in distinctly birdlike behaviors, such as nesting and brooding.
某些恐龙明显表现出鸟类的行为，例如筑巢和孵卵。
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3. brooding over its past crimes (slavery, imperialism, fascism, communism), Europe sees its history as a series of murders and depredations that culminated in two global conflicts.
沉思过去那些罪孽，欧洲将之视为一连串的谋杀与蹂躏，并最终引发了两次世界大战。
- brooding (adj.) 1640s, "hovering, persistently overhanging" (as a mother bird does her nest), from present participle of brood (v.); meaning "that dwells moodily" first attested 1818 (in "Frankenstein").
- brooding (n.) "action of incubating," c. 1400, verbal noun from brood (v.). Figuratively (of weather, etc.) from 1805; of mental fixations by 1873. Related: Broodingly.
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