brood over something
collocation为某事忧思；对某事耿耿于怀
Stop brooding over your past mistakes.
别再为你过去的错误忧思了。
沉思；忧思；郁闷地思考
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沉思；忧思；郁闷地思考
to think about something sadly, angrily, or moodily for a long time
After the argument, she sat alone in her room brooding over what had been said.
争吵之后，她独自坐在房间里沉思着说过的话。
常与 over、on 或 about 连用
孵蛋使其孵化。
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
保护(逐渐成熟的事物)；培育。
To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
(通常与 over、on 或 about 连用)独自长时间沉思、忧虑。
(typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon one's thoughts moodily and at length, mainly alone.
被繁殖。
To be bred.
brood
Base
原形
broods
3rd person
第三人称单数
brooding
-ing
现在分词
brooded
Past
过去式
brooded
Past participle
过去分词
She broods over her mistakes for days.
她好几天都在沉思自己的错误。
The hen is brooding her eggs.
母鸡正在孵蛋。
He brooded about the problem all night.
他整夜都在焦虑地思考那个问题。
规则动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed。
He tends to brood about his mistakes long after they are made.
他倾向于在犯错后长时间耿耿于怀。
Stop brooding and come help us with the preparations.
别发愁了，来帮我们准备吧。
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为某事忧思；对某事耿耿于怀
Stop brooding over your past mistakes.
别再为你过去的错误忧思了。
默默地忧思；独自闷闷不乐
He sat in the corner, brooding in silence.
他坐在角落里，默默忧思。
孵蛋的母鸡；抱窝的母鸡
The brooding hen refuses to leave her eggs.
孵蛋的母鸡不肯离开她的蛋。
反复忧思；为……而闷闷不乐
She sat by the window, brooding over what he had said.
她坐在窗边，反复想着他说过的话。
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联想：brood 中间两个 oo 像眼睛——母鸡孵蛋时守着蛋，人忧虑时也独自守着念头不放。
语域：formal 常见场景：literary fiction、personal reflection 这里指“长时间忧思/沉思”这个义项（常接 over/on/about）。它比 think/worry 更书面，带有持续郁闷或不安的情绪，通常出现在文学或较正式的表达中；日常口语中更常说 worry、think 或 mope。
与 brood /bruːd/ 押韵的词：food /fuːd/, mood /muːd/, rude /ruːd/, crude /kruːd/, dude /duːd/, brewed /bruːd/（brewed 与 brood 同音异形）。注意拼写相近但不押韵的词：blood /blʌd/, flood /flʌd/, good /ɡʊd/, wood /wʊd/，其中 'ood' 的发音不同。
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