Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense broods, present participle brooding, past tense, past participle brooded
1N-COUNT 一窝幼雏 A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. 一窝幼雏
2N-COUNT [usually singular](某人的)一群孩子,家中所有的子女 You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. (某人的)一群孩子,家中所有的子女 [emphasis]
...a large brood of children. [+ of]
一大群子女
3VERB 沉思;苦思冥想 If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. 沉思;苦思冥想
I guess everyone broods over things once in a while. [Vover/on/about n]
我猜想每个人都会不时地琢磨一些事情。
She constantly broods about her family. [V + over/on/about]
她一直为她的家人担忧。
I continued to brood. Would he always be like this? [VERB]