[N-COUNT 可数名词]一窝幼雏 A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
[usu with supp]
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](某人的)一群孩子,家中所有的子女 You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them.
[usu sing]
[emphasis]
...a large brood of children.
一大群子女
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[VERB 动词]沉思;苦思冥想 If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily.
[V over/on/about n]
[V]
I guess everyone broods over things once in a while...
我猜想每个人都会不时地琢磨一些事情。
She constantly broods about her family...
她一直为她的家人担忧。
I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?
我一直不安:他会一直这样吗?
Oxford
brood/bruːd; NAmEbruːd/
verb
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noun
broodbroodsbroodedbroodingverb1[intransitive ]brood(over/on/about sth) to think a lot about sth that makes you annoyed, anxious or upset 焦虑,忧思(使人厌烦、担忧或不安的事)◆You're not still brooding over what he said, are you?你不是还在为他的话闷闷不乐吧?2[intransitive , transitive ]brood(sth) if a bird broods,or broodsits eggs, it sits on the eggs in order to hatchthem (= make the young come out of them)孵(蛋)noun[countable + singular or plural verb ]1all the young birds or creatures that a mother produces at one time (一次孵或生的)一窝鸟,一窝动物SYN
clutch
2( humorous) a large family of children 一大家孩子brood/bruːd; NAmEbruːd/
LDC
brood1 verb
brood2 noun
broodbrood1 /bruːd/ verb [intransitive]
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1to keep thinking about something that you are worried or upset about: Don’t sit at home brooding all day.brood over/about/on There’s no point brooding over it – she’s gone.► see thesaurus at
think
2if a bird broods, it sits on its eggs to make the young birds break out
brood1 verb
brood2 noun
broodbrood2 noun [countable]
Word Origin
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1a family of young birds all born at the same time2a family with a lot of children – used humorouslybrood of Mary has a whole brood of grandchildren.
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