brood

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. 一窩幼雛
...a hungry brood of fledglings. …一窩飢餓的雛鳥。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to someone's young children as their brood when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. 一家子[強調]
...a large brood of children. …一大家子小孩。
3. V-I If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. 擔憂
She constantly broods about her family. 她一直在爲她的家人擔憂。