brood

/brood/US // brud //UK // (bruːd) //

报窝,报盘,报窝子,报刊杂志

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
- : a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to sit upon to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
- : to warm, protect, or cover with the wings or body.
- : to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.

v.无主动词 verb

nouncluster of children

Forms: brooded, brooding

Synonyms

That chafed—not so much the business of being so junior a member of the sibling brood, but, as he reached his teens, at the privileges age afforded his siblings and the ones it denied him.
Last week, you analyzed two broods of cicadas, with periods of A and B years, that had just emerged in the same season.
Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers — and relatively prime with one another — which means these broods are rarely in phase with other predators or each other.
Her quirky, bubbly personality is a sharp contrast from the otherwise dark, brooding atmosphere of “Mass Effect 2.”
Kritsky hopes that by the time the next major cicada explosion emerges in 2024—a brood in northern Illinois that emerges on a 13-year cycle—he’ll have figured out a way to use artificial intelligence to do the painstaking work.
The new trail is slated for February, which happens to be around the time the eagles will likely be starting another brood.
After all, the small congregation— about 40 strong —is comprised almost entirely of the Phelps brood.
The key is how much we can brood, and what is meant by brooding—is it to daydream, or is it to agonize over every detail?
An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third.
Why he went after the Anderson brood is especially puzzling.
He returned in ten minutes or so, having sat for that period behind a neighbouring tree to brood over his circumstances.

/brood/US // brud //UK // (bruːd) //

报窝,报盘,报窝子,报刊杂志

n.名词 noun

1
- : a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
- : a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to sit upon to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
- : to warm, protect, or cover with the wings or body.
- : to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.

v.无主动词 verb

nouncluster of children

Forms: brooded, brooding

Synonyms

That chafed—not so much the business of being so junior a member of the sibling brood, but, as he reached his teens, at the privileges age afforded his siblings and the ones it denied him.
Last week, you analyzed two broods of cicadas, with periods of A and B years, that had just emerged in the same season.
Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers — and relatively prime with one another — which means these broods are rarely in phase with other predators or each other.
Her quirky, bubbly personality is a sharp contrast from the otherwise dark, brooding atmosphere of “Mass Effect 2.”
Kritsky hopes that by the time the next major cicada explosion emerges in 2024—a brood in northern Illinois that emerges on a 13-year cycle—he’ll have figured out a way to use artificial intelligence to do the painstaking work.
The new trail is slated for February, which happens to be around the time the eagles will likely be starting another brood.
After all, the small congregation— about 40 strong —is comprised almost entirely of the Phelps brood.
The key is how much we can brood, and what is meant by brooding—is it to daydream, or is it to agonize over every detail?
An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third.
Why he went after the Anderson brood is especially puzzling.
He returned in ten minutes or so, having sat for that period behind a neighbouring tree to brood over his circumstances.