| 单词 | to brood on or over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto brood on or over b. To cherish in the mind, ‘to nurse wrath (or the like) to keep it warm’; to meditate upon, contemplate with feeling. Now usually to brood on or over: see sense 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)] thinkOE overthinkOE recorda1400 studya1400 imaginec1405 revolve?c1425 contemplairec1525 brood1589 recollect1626 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 121 The world thus brooding Vanities. 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xii. 87 To sit moping to brood their Melancholly. 1651 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioon Mary Queen of Scots 67 She temperatly broodeth [(ed. 1) brooketh] good luck. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 68 You'l sit and brood your sorrows on a Throne. 1783 G. Crabbe Village ii. 26 Their careful masters brood the painful thought. 1784 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1826) IV. 337 I have had no long time to brood hope. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 61 Such wedlock even now He blindly broods, as shall uptear his kingdom. < as lemmas |
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