| 单词 | brooding |
| 释义 | brooding (once / 872 pages) 1adjn 2n When you're dwelling on something, you're brooding about it — this can be thoughtful or morbidly obsessed. When you're brooding, you might be depressed about something you just can't stop thinking about—like the lead character in Hamlet. Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, musing, reflective, or ruminative — those are all good things. You have to look at the context to see if someone is brooding in a positive or negative way. This is also a word for what chickens and other egg-laying animals do: sitting on eggs to help them hatch. WORD FAMILYbrooding: broodingly, broodings+/brood: brooded, brooder, brooding, broods/brooder: brooders USAGE EXAMPLESThroughout the finished film — lent a brooding quality by its stark landscapes; misty, desaturated palette; and figures often seen in silhouette — his influence is unmistakable. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Some are moved by the disappearance of the wildlife they study, or the brooding omnipresence of climate change. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) A brooding film about a remote home inhabited by law-breaking priests, “El Club” is the dark, Latin American antithesis to “Spotlight.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1 1adj deeply or seriously thoughtful Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man Syn broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative thoughtful exhibiting or characterized by careful thought 2n persistent morbid meditation on a problem 2Syn|Hyper pensiveness melancholy a feeling of thoughtful sadness n sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body Syn|Hyper incubation birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition the process of giving birth |
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