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  1. It's no use brooding over one's past mistakes.
    老是抱着过去的错误是没用的。
  2. She fell to brooding about what had happened to her.
    她开始沉思默想自己的遭遇.


brooding
[ noun ]
  1. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

  2. <noun.process>
  3. persistent morbid meditation on a problem

  4. <noun.feeling>
[ adj ]
  1. deeply or seriously thoughtful

  2. <adj.all>
    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


Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brooded}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Brooding}.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.

2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.

Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.

Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.

brooding \brood"ing\, a.
good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that
purpose; as, a brooding hen.

Syn: brood, hatching.
[WordNet 1.5]


brooding \brooding\ n.
the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the
warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.

Syn: incubation.
[WordNet 1.5]


brooding \brood"ing\, a.
1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about
a particular problem.

Syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive,
pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. At Touchstone, brooding artiness or shoot-'em-up action pictures are rare, and most film makers are kept on a tight leash.
  2. They've constructed their gangsters the way a European who loves American movies (but who in some fundamental way doesn't really understand them) might: as brooding creatures with impenetrable psyches whose every move contains some higher symbolism.
  3. "The music is definitely very brooding," he said. "It's very bombastic.
  4. The memory they take away will be of trees and fountains and perhaps the brooding presence of Japan.
  5. On the few songs Harry wrote with ex-boyfriend Chris Stein, the dark, brooding punk attitudes return.
  6. Quietly brooding, tempting, she plays the role with a kittenish touch, teasing the soldiers and giving Don Jose a surprise by springing upon him from behind.
  7. Glaxo settled 14 off at 776p and Wellcome fell 17 to 867p. The oil market was brooding over the possibility that yet more earnings downgrades for BP may be on the way.
  8. Grieco set young hearts throbbing last year in Fox's "21 Jump Street" as the handsome, brooding, rebel cop Dennis Booker.
  9. This three-disk collection offers vibrant, muscular renditions of the brooding Russian master's 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies.
  10. Similarly pain, the other central teenage emotion, does not occur until volume 4 and Billy's Fury's brooding, haunted 'Maybe Tomorrow'.
  11. In a Mike Figgis film the visual background is a stroboscopic tapestry - shifting shadows and blobs or shards of light - and the 'music', composed by himself, consists of brooding electronic hums and throbs.
  12. Rossellini is beautiful and touching as Zelly, a gentle, loving woman far from the brooding, frightened character she played in "Blue Velvet."
  13. Maybe it's the bleak setting of windswept beaches, brooding moors and gray, weatherbeaten houses. Perhaps it's all the ships lost off the coast, carrying terrified souls into the stormy Atlantic.
  14. Contemporaries recall Aung San as a compelling personality, a sincere, highly principled and simple-living man who could mix easily with colleagues and then lapse into periods of brooding silence.
  15. Here the feeling for nature - which has long characterised Scandinavian craft and design - has become even more pronounced, and related to the brooding Northern landscape and coastline.
  16. A brooding figure in a black hat and long coat, he immediately arouses Seth's suspicion and ire.
  17. He described these voyages in books called "Kon Tiki," "The Ra Expeditions" and "The Tigris Expedition." Easter Island is home to nearly 400 massive, brooding stone figures carved several hundred years ago and called moais.
  18. Laurence Fishburne is frighteningly charismatic as the brooding Ike - it is easy to see why Anna Mae falls for him as a young man, easier still to see why Tina leaves him two decades later.
  19. In exile, the brooding clergyman kept his links with followers in Iran.
  20. But I guess I couldn't fully put the topic out of my mind because I found myself brooding over the various styles of presidents, past and present, toward the management of the government entrusted to them.
  21. From the Registan you can walk past the tea-houses of Tashkent Street to the bazaar and the massive, brooding remains of Tamerlane's Bibi Khanym mosque. There is also Gur Emir, the terrible warlord's mausoleum.
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