| 单词 | brood |
| 释义 | brood —broodless, adj. /broohd/, n. 1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. 2. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. v.t. 3. to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate. 4. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body. 5. to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem. v.i. 6. to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird. 7. to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually fol. by over or on). 8. brood above or over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village. adj. 9. kept for breeding: a brood hen. [bef. 1000; ME; OE brod; c. D broed, G Brut. See BREED] Syn. 1. BROOD, LITTER refer to young creatures. BROOD is esp. applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys. LITTER is applied to a group of young animals brought forth at a birth: a litter of kittens or pups. 2. line, stock, strain. |
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