| 单词 | brood |
| 释义 | brood (bruːd ) Word forms: broods , brooding , brooded 1. countable noun A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. 2. countable noun [usually singular] You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. [emphasis] ...a large brood of children. [+ of] 3. verb If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. I guess everyone broods over things once in a while. [V over/on/about n] She constantly broods about her family. [V + over/on/about] I continued to brood. Would he always be like this? [VERB] Synonyms: think, obsess, muse, ponder Collocations: raise a brood Bees collect pollen as a protein source to raise their brood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Of course, celebs won't struggle for nannies in raising their brood; from their perspective, twins make sense. Times, Sunday Times A sow hedgehog raised her brood deep underneath a clump of winter-flowering heathers, completely unseen until a branch died some months later. The Sun Ground nesting like this seems risky, but they are generally successful in raising their brood. Times, Sunday Times However, each female in a communal nest cares for and raises her brood independently. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 一窝幼雏, 沉思 Japanese: 一かえりのひな, くよくよ考える |
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