• vt. 孵；沉思
• n. 一窩；一伙
• n. (Brood)人名；(瑞典)布羅德

來自breed, 繁殖，孵化。原指母雞孵蛋過程中的暴躁癥狀，后指憂慮。

brood

brood: [OE] Like breed, brood came from a prehistoric Germanic base *brōd-, whose ultimate source was Indo-European *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of brood is thus not so much ‘reproduction’ as ‘incubation, the warmth that promotes hatching’. The verbal sense ‘worry’ developed in the 18th century.
=> braise, brawn, breath, breed

brood (n.)

Old English brod "brood, fetus, hatchling," from Proto-Germanic *brod (cognates: Middle Dutch broet, Old High German bruot, German Brut "brood"), literally "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from root *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)).

brood (v.)

"sit on eggs, hatch," mid-15c., from brood (n.). The figurative meaning ("to incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1570s, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc. Related: Brooded; brooding.

1. I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?

我一直不安：他會一直這樣嗎？

來自柯林斯例句

2. The hen brought off a brood of young.

母雞孵出了一窩小雞.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. There's Mrs. Brien taking her brood for a walk.

布萊恩太太正領著她那群孩子散步呢.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. It is time for hens to brood.

該是母雞孵蛋的時候了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Speak out. Don't just brood over things.

你有什么事就說吧, 別圈在心里.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》