brood是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 同窝幼鸟; 一个家庭的孩子; vi. 孵幼雏; 沉思，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among these terrors, and the brood belonging to them, the Doctor walked with a steady head: confident in his pow-er, cautiously persistent in his end, never doubting that he would save Lucie's husband at last.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had it not been for them, she would have been left alone to brood over her husband who did not love her.
-- It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily, about two o'clock, Ned Land brought down a magnificent hog; from the brood of those the natives call "bari-outang."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In fact," said Dr. Pickerbaugh, "WE think they're a very striking brood of chickabiddies."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me tell you, that you are all a set of babbling, pos-ing idiots!If you've any little trouble you brood over it like a hen over an egg.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the faint cloudlets had flown back into the south-east corner of the sky, as if in terror of the large cloud, like a young brood gazed in upon by some monster.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was by turns all the most mysterious brood of vice and shame and misery; yet, however vile his life might be, the feeling of repulsion which he aroused in others was not so strong that he must be banished from their society--he paid his way.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children abrood which was increased regularly every year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, thank you," I replied, turning from the table to brood over the fire.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After producing a brood of wrong children," said Gerald gloomily.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- RACHAELA candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection, that of all the casualties of this existence upon earth, not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as Death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The awful and hideous storm still continues; the lightning has increased in vividness, and pours out its fiery wrath like a brood of serpents let loose in the atmosphere.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready.
-- Mrs. March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, wak-ing often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.
-- I brood too much over my own small affairs, and need stirring up, so as I can be spared this winter, I'd like to hop a little way and try my wings.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Invisible Man's wrist was growing painful; he was feverish, exhausted, and his mind came round to brood upon his chase down the hill and the struggle about the inn.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was left to herself to brood and wonder.
-- Almost invariably she would carry the vivid imaginations away with her and brood over them the next day alone.
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