breed

英 [bri?d] 美[brid]

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復數:?breeds;第三人稱單數:?breeds;過去式:?bred;過去分詞:?bred;現在分詞:?breeding;

breed 繁殖

詞源同brew, 蒸，加熱。原指小雞孵化的過程。

breed: breed: [OE] The Old English verb brēdan came from West Germanic *brōdjan, a derivative of *brōd-, which produced brood. This in turn was based on *brō-, whose ultimate source was the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of breed is thus not ‘reproduction’ so much as ‘incubation, the warmth which promotes hatching’.
=> braise, brawn, breath, brood
breed (v.): Old English bredan "bring young to birth, carry," also "cherish, keep warm," from West Germanic *brodjan (cognates: Old High German bruoten, German brüten "to brood, hatch"), from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhreue- "burn, heat" (see brood (n.)). Original notion of the word was incubation, warming to hatch. Sense of "grow up, be reared" (in a clan, etc.) is late 14c. Related: Bred; breeding.
breed (n.): "race, lineage, stock" (originally of animals), 1550s, from breed (v.). Of persons, from 1590s. Meaning "kind, species" is from 1580s.

1. If they are unemployed it's bound to breed resentment.: 如果他們失去工作，一定會產生怨恨。

2. Many animals breed only at certain times of the year.: 很多動物只在一年的某個時候交配繁殖。

5. The parents are trying to breed their son a musician.: 這對父母盡力要把兒子培養成為音樂家.