brood

verb

1. 焦虑，忧思（使人厌烦、担忧或不安的事）
   to think a lot about sth that makes you annoyed, anxious or upset
   1. 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. 孵（蛋）
   if a bird broods , or broods its eggs, it sits on the eggs in order to hatch them (= make the young come out of them)

noun

1. （一次孵或生的）一窝鸟，一窝动物
   all the young birds or creatures that a mother produces at one time
2. 一大家孩子
   a large family of children

1. 一窝幼雏
   A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
2. N-COUNT （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.
   1. ...a large brood of children.
      一大群子女
3. VERB 沉思；苦思冥想
   If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily.
   1. 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。
   2. She constantly broods about her family...
      她一直为她的家人担忧。
   3. I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?
      我一直不安：他会一直这样吗？

1. 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。
2. She constantly broods about her family
   她一直为她的家人担忧。
3. I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?
   我一直不安：他会一直这样吗？
4. Speak out. Don't just brood over things.
   你有什么事就说吧，别圈在心里。
5. You seem to brood over things.
   你好像有什么事闷在心里。
6. The hen brought off a brood of young.
   母鸡孵出了一窝小鸡。
7. It is time for hens to brood.
   该是母鸡孵蛋的时候了。
8. Like most children, my own brood complains constantly about my style of parenting.
   像大多数孩子们一样，我自己的孩子也一直抱怨我对他们的养育方式。
9. Perhaps most of all, he likes to brood.
   也许大部分时候他喜欢沉思。
10. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!
    你也可让一个陌生人和一窝老虎待在一起。
11. The brood of bees approached the new field of budding flowers with care.
    那窝蜜蜂小心翼翼地靠近一块从未去过的田野，那里长满了含苞待放的鲜花。
12. Stay open to what you can learn, but refuse to brood.
    对于你能学到的东西始终保持开放的心态，但不要陷入沉思。
13. The hen gathered her brood under her wings.
    这母鸡把他的一窝小鸡赶集在她的翼膀下。
14. You also have a tendency to brood and to bear grudges and can be suspicious and vindictive.
    另外，你喜欢沉思，易于记仇，而且可能会有些多疑，又怀有报复心。
15. If I didn't make conscious choices now, I knew I would brood and drink.
    我知道，如果现在不做出清醒的选择，我就会闷头沉思，纵酒滥饮。
16. These results indicate that different brood pheromones of honeybee have different biological effects.
    这说明不同蜜蜂幼虫信息素具有不同的生物学效应。
17. Effects of brood pheromone on development of queen
    幼虫信息素对中蜂和意蜂蜂王发育影响
18. Besides, breeding, brood stage is very like sparrows gregarious birds.
    除繁殖、育雏阶段外，麻雀是非常喜欢群居的鸟类。
19. I don't brood over what I can't change.
    我不会去想那些我无力改变的事。
20. In the brood chamber below, the bees will stash honey to eat later.
    在一个窝室中，蜜蜂会藏起蜜晚些再吃。
21. And brood on hopes and fears no more.
    不要再寻思希望和恐惧。
22. They all have need for me, and I have no time to brood over the afterlife.
    他们都需要我，我没有时间去冥想来生。
23. She was mad at her son for killing the brood hen.
    她因儿子宰了传种的母鸡而对他十分恼火。
24. This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds;
    这卑贱的一伙，把他们的位置固定在平庸中，成了你的奴性的心灵；
25. Barn Swallow nest at Kwun Tong is now raising the second brood this year.
    观塘市中心的一个家燕巢，今天已在育第二窝了。
26. She was left to herself to brood and wonder.
    她只有独自一个在那里沉思和惊讶。
27. That day's brood contained four kittens.
    这一窝猫有四只。
28. Her elopement was a great Blow to the parents, But Clyde himself did not Brood over the matter.
    她的出走给双亲很大的打击，可克莱德却没把这件事放在心上。
29. The eggs are held in a brood pouch between their extended abdomen and thorax.
    他们的卵在孵卵囊里（胸部和腹部之间）。
30. The young were always already out of their brood cave when first seen.
    年轻的人已经永远离开自己的窝洞时，首先看到的。

  brood hatch incubate【导航词义：孵化】

  brood v. 孵蛋，抱窝

〔辨析〕尤指禽类孵蛋，直至幼禽破壳而出。

  hatch v. 孵出；出壳

〔辨析〕普通用词，指蛋破壳或孵出幼禽、小鱼、小虫等。

  incubate v. 孵（卵），孵化

〔辨析〕指禽类孵卵或蛋，或指卵、蛋等处于温暖的环境中直到被孵化。

noun

1. the young of an animal cared for at one time

verb

1. sit on (eggs)
   1. Birds brood
   2. The female covers the eggs

   Synonym:    hatchcoverincubate

2. think moodily or anxiously about something

   Synonym:    dwell

3. be in a huff

   Synonym:    grizzlestew

4. be in a huff and display one's displeasure
   1. She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

   Synonym:    sulkpout

5. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
   1. The terrible vision brooded over her all day long

   Synonym:    hoverloombulk large