单词	brood
释义	brood1 verbbrood2 noun broodbrood1 /bruːd/ verb [intransitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE brood Simple Form Present I, you, we, they brood he, she, it broods Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they brooded Present perfect I, you, we, they have brooded he, she, it has brooded Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had brooded Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will brood Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have brooded Continuous Form Present I am brooding he, she, it is brooding you, we, they are brooding Past I, he, she, it was brooding you, we, they were brooding Present perfect I, you, we, they have been brooding he, she, it has been brooding Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been brooding Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be brooding Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been brooding Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Achilles sits in his tent, brooding over the wrongs done to him. Austin sat in the corner brooding and looking sorry for himself. Dad alternately brooded and raged, and Mum wasn't much better. Don't sit at home brooding about how badly you've been treated. Ken had little to do except sit and brood. The poetry spends a lot of time brooding over death. There's no point in brooding -- forget about her. You can't spend all your time at home brooding about the way he treated you. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Ben Nevis brooded benevolently over all. Instead, a burnt man kneels near a puddle, quietly brooding. It becomes heavy work to distract Harriet from brooding about lost Elton. Looking this way at myself, I am less inclined to brood over whatever blessings may have been withheld. Recession is biting at Softwright Systems, but Nick Durrant has no time to brood over it. Thesaurus THESAURUSto keep thinking about something► brood to keep thinking for a long time about something that worries you or that makes you angry or upset: · There’s no point brooding over things you can’t change. ► dwell on something to spend too much time thinking about something sad or unpleasant: · I try to enjoy my life today and not dwell on the past. Longman Language Activatorto think about something a lot► give something a lot of thought · I've given this a lot of thought, because we all know that health care issues are very important today.give a lot of thought to something · Tony has given a lot of thought to what made his father a legendary coach.· Many of the new West-Coast designers have obviously given a lot of thought to their furniture designs. ► have something on your mind to be thinking about something all the time, especially because you are worried about it: · She has something on her mind, but she won't tell us what it is.· "Should we tell Dad?" "No, he's got a lot on his mind right now."be on somebody's mind: · Come on, tell me what's on your mind.· I'm not looking forward to the interview. It's been on my mind all week. ► can't stop thinking about somebody/something also can't get somebody/something out of my mind informal to be unable to stop thinking about someone or something, even when you do not want to think about them: · After the first three months of the pregnancy were over, I just couldn't stop thinking about food.· I just can't get that poor family out of my mind. ► dwell on to spend too much time thinking about something sad or unpleasant - use this especially when telling someone not to do this: · Brian's still dwelling too much on the past, in my opinion.· There's no use in dwelling on problems that we can't do anything about. ► brood to keep thinking for a long time about something that worries you or that makes you angry or upset: · Austin sat in the corner brooding and looking sorry for himself.brood on/over/about: · You can't spend all your time at home brooding about the way he treated you.· The poetry spends a lot of time brooding over death. ► be wrapped up in to spend all your time thinking about something that concerns you, for example your work, so that you have no time to think about other things or other people: · These days she's so wrapped up in her children she never sees anybody.· Sometimes the professors are so wrapped up in their graduate students, they ignore the undergraduates. ► be preoccupied to be thinking all the time about something that is worrying you or that is important to you, so that it is difficult to think about anything else: · What is being done to end the crisis which has preoccupied the country's political leadership?be preoccupied with: · My mother was preoccupied with my brother and his illness, so I was allowed to do what I wanted. ► have something on the brain spoken to be always thinking about a particular thing - use this when you want to say that someone thinks about something far too much: · It's unbelievable - you have sex on the brain 24 hours a day! ► turn something over in your mind to think about something carefully and repeatedly, especially something you do not fully understand or that you have not made a final decision about: · When Dan left, Mae stayed there, turning his invitation over in her mind.· As he studied the picture of the little boy, he began to turn an idea over in his mind. to feel worried about something► worry · My husband worries when I'm late home from work.· Don't worry, there's plenty of time.· Mom, stop worrying. I'll be fine.worry (that) · He began to worry he might lose his job.· I was worried that Shannon was too small, but the doctor says she's fine.worry about · I was really worried about it at the time.· I don't know what you're worrying about. ► fret to worry a lot about something, especially something that is not very serious: · She worries and frets all the time -- I think it's because she's got no one to talk to about her problems.fret about/over: · I'd sit in meetings, fretting about what was happening at home.· There's no point in fretting over it now.fret that: · Opponents fret that the system might not provide enough help in times of rural economic crisis. ► brood to keep thinking about and worrying about a problem for a long time after it has happened: · There's no point in brooding -- forget about her.· Dad alternately brooded and raged, and Mum wasn't much better.brood about/over/on: · Don't sit at home brooding about how badly you've been treated.· Achilles sits in his tent, brooding over the wrongs done to him. ► be worried sick to be very worried and upset about something: · Where were you last night? I was worried sick.be worried sick about: · She's worried sick about the possibility of losing her job.· I'm worried sick about Sandy. I haven't heard from her for days. worry yourself sick: · Jenny had worried herself sick trying to think of a way to pay back the money. ► frantic extremely worried and frightened about a situation and unable to think or behave calmly: · Inspector Grimes was used to dealing with frantic parents.get/grow/become frantic: · The knocking on the door and shouts became frantic.· There is still no news of the missing child and her parents are getting frantic.· The dog's barking grew frantic as I approached.frantic with worry/fear: · Her eyes were frantic with fear, and she couldn't keep still. ► be at your wits' end to be very worried about a problem, especially something that has been happening for a long time that you feel you cannot deal with any longer: · I don't know what I can do to keep our marriage together -- I'm at my wits' end!· It was two days before the baby was due, and Robert was at his wits' end. ► have qualms to be worried that something you are going to do might be morally wrong: · Few so-called animal lovers have qualms when they purchase meat from supermarkets.· Despite my qualms, I accepted the job.have qualms about: · Shareholders seem to have few qualms about companies sponsoring overseas abortion programs. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► about · We found Tam brooding about half way up the fence.· He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.· It becomes heavy work to distract Harriet from brooding about lost Elton.· Young Oliver Rowntree, nursing his outrage, spent the summer brooding about what he could do to retaliate.· Silent and rebellious, she brooded about how crossed their purposes now seemed. ► over · She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight - over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer.· Looking this way at myself, I am less inclined to brood over whatever blessings may have been withheld.· That night I woke at half-past three and lay brooding over my lack of progress.· The Colonel's brooding over his notebooks, and lying under his stone, and standing on his plinth on Montefiore Hill.· Airlines still brooding over what to buy may have to wait until the turn of the century.· I wondered, watching him brood over the row of charts.· He brooded over what he had written before submitting it for publication.· His unfairness gave her something else to brood over. 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 think2if a bird broods, it sits on its eggs to make the young birds break out brood1 verbbrood2 noun broodbrood2 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbrood2 Origin: Old English brod Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It takes at least an hour to get the whole brood ready to go to school. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He had been the largest of the brood, always alert and playing. His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans. So where were these sacrificial adopted broods coming from? The youngest bees clean out the cells and nurse the brood. This will ensure good growth in the brood. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► large · In species that forage inshore, clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances.· He had been the largest of the brood, always alert and playing.· Brood size Neon Tetras are an easy fish to spawn, but it is not an easy feat to raise large broods. NOUN► mare · Now, at Deer Forest, two brood mares were all that was left from former dreams and ambitions.· Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare. VERB► raise · Brood size Neon Tetras are an easy fish to spawn, but it is not an easy feat to raise large broods.· Blackbirds have raised a brood in the lean-to where we keep the logs.· The proper function of woman was to raise a brood much larger than women had wanted since before 1914.· Those which raised a brood must be exhausted.· Under our eaves, a pair of house martins are raising a late brood after having to rebuild a nest. 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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