| 单词 | breed |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [bri:d] |
| 解释 | v.繁殖；教养；n.品种，种类 |
| 红宝书 | 无 |
| 字源 | breed (v.) Old English bredan "bring young to birth, carry," also "cherish, keep warm," from West Germanic *brodjan (cognates: Old High German bruoten, German brüten "to brood, hatch"), from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhreue- "burn, heat" (see brood (n.)). Original notion of the word was incubation, warming to hatch. Sense of "grow up, be reared" (in a clan, etc.) is late 14c. Related: Bred; breeding. breed (n.) "race, lineage, stock" (originally of animals), 1550s, from breed (v.). Of persons, from 1590s. Meaning "kind, species" is from 1580s. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 无 |
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