brooding

英 [ˈbruːdɪŋ]

美 [ˈbruːdɪŋ]

adj. 幽怨的; 忧思的; 森然的; 险恶的
v. 焦虑，忧思(使人厌烦、担忧或不安的事); 孵(蛋)
brood的现在分词

现在分词：brooding　复数：broodings　

Collins.1 / BNC.12439 / COCA.13311

牛津词典

adj.

ADJ-GRADED （气氛或感情）压抑的，令人不安的
Broodingis used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
1. The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
  他们也感觉到了同样沉重压抑的寂静。
ADJ-GRADED （尤指对令人不快的事物）沉思的，苦苦思索的
If someone's expression or appearance isbrooding, they look as if they are thinking deeply and seriously about something, especially something that is making them unhappy.
1. She kissed him and gazed into his dark, brooding eyes.
  她吻了吻他，久久凝视着他乌黑忧郁的双眼。

noun

persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Synonym:pensiveness
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
Synonym:incubation

adj

deeply or seriously thoughtful
1. 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
Synonym:broodycontemplativemeditativemusingpensiveponderingreflectiveruminative

A few years ago, Brandon Green was sitting on the couch, brooding over a small mistake he'd made at work and the likely consequences.
几年前的一天，布兰登·格林（BrandonGreen）坐在沙发上，琢磨着他在工作中犯的一个小错和可能酿成的后果。
Males and females take turns brooding the eggs.
雄鸟和雌鸟轮流孵蛋。
More than ever of late his silence, his brooding had increased.
这一阵他比往常更来得沉默寡言，心事重重。
I have no time for brooding over problems or browsing through my memories.
我没有时间考虑种种问题或者随意翻开记忆。
He has plainly done a painful amount of brooding and selfanalysis.
他显然已经做过一番痛苦的沉思与自我分析。
I finally stayed where I was, brooding.
最后还是哪儿也没去，陷入了沉思。
He had taken that brooding, hairy monkey into his heart.
他竟把那么一只闷忧忧，毛茸茸的猴子引为知己。
Now, I imagined a heavy snow falling on its brooding, icy reaches.
我想象着在连绵的雪峰上正下着漫天大雪。
The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
他们也感觉到了同样沉重压抑的寂静。
He'd been brooding over how furious he was with my father.
他一直在想他对我父亲发了多大的脾气。