| 单词 | brook |
| 释义 | brook (once / 336 pages) 1n 2v A brook is a small stream. On a hot day, you might enjoy wading in a babbling brook. As a verb, brook is a rather stuffy word for "put up with." The lord of the manor might say, "I will brook no trespassing on my land." Brook is tailor-made for talking about what you won't stand for—it's always "brook no..." If you brook no criticism of your friend, it means you won't let people speak ill of her. If you brook no brooks, it means you've developed a bizarre stream-hating fetish and will spend the rest of your days trying to stop their flow. WORD FAMILYbrook: brooked, brooking, brooklet+/brooklet: brooklets USAGE EXAMPLESShe did bounce back, appearing in, among other pictures, Albert Brook’s 1996 comedy Mother. Time(Dec 29, 2016) The Sachem High School East student was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of hip fractures. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) Brook Lopez added 20 points for the Nets, who played without Jeremy Lin again but avoided a third consecutive defeat. Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1 n a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) 2Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper creek Bull Run a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War Aegospotamosa creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War brooklet a small brook stream, watercourse a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth v put up with something or somebody unpleasant Syn|Hypo|Hyper abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate suffer experience (emotional) pain accept, live with, swallow tolerate or accommodate oneself to hold still for, stand fortolerate or bear bear upendure cheerfully take lying downsuffer without protest; suffer or endure passively take a jokelisten to a joke at one's own expense sit outendure to the end paybear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action get one's lumps, take one's lumpssuffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions allow, countenance, let, permit consent to, give permission |
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