brood 的 5 个定义
- a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
- a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
- to sit upon to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
- to warm, protect, or cover with the wings or body.
- to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.
- to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
- to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence.
- kept for breeding: a brood hen.
- brood above / over to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
brood 近义词
cluster of children
agonize over
更多brood例句
- That chafed—not so much the business of being so junior a member of the sibling brood, but, as he reached his teens, at the privileges age afforded his siblings and the ones it denied him.
- Last week, you analyzed two broods of cicadas, with periods of A and B years, that had just emerged in the same season.
- Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers — and relatively prime with one another — which means these broods are rarely in phase with other predators or each other.
- Her quirky, bubbly personality is a sharp contrast from the otherwise dark, brooding atmosphere of “Mass Effect 2.”
- Kritsky hopes that by the time the next major cicada explosion emerges in 2024—a brood in northern Illinois that emerges on a 13-year cycle—he’ll have figured out a way to use artificial intelligence to do the painstaking work.
- The new trail is slated for February, which happens to be around the time the eagles will likely be starting another brood.
- After all, the small congregation— about 40 strong —is comprised almost entirely of the Phelps brood.
- The key is how much we can brood, and what is meant by brooding—is it to daydream, or is it to agonize over every detail?
- An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third.
- Why he went after the Anderson brood is especially puzzling.
- He returned in ten minutes or so, having sat for that period behind a neighbouring tree to brood over his circumstances.
- What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!
- What will you be, some day, when Posey lays eggs, and brings out a brood of little chickens?
- A portly woman, whom Isabel knew to be the mother of a brood, was far more anxious to please.
- Finally only one duckling remained in the middle of the river, probably at once the strongest and most foolish of the brood.