Brooding

(noun.) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body.

(adj.) deeply or seriously thoughtful; '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'; .

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• Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As Tarzan stood upon the threshold brooding, D'Arnot had entered the cabin. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Her brooding look, as of a mind withdrawn yet not averted, seemed to Mr. Rosedale full of a subtle encouragement. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It happened so to catch her fancy that she took it up in a low brooding voice as if she were singing in her sleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He was, for the most part, gay and cheerful with us; but sometimes his eyes rested on her, and he fell into a brooding state, and was silent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I looked in, and saw him a sitting lonely by his fire, brooding over it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And she had misgivings and fears which she dared not acknowledge to herself, though she was always secretly brooding over them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Wildeve had been brooding ever since they started on the mean estimation in which he was held by his wife's friends; and it cut his heart severely. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When he got back, Lightwood was standing over the fire, brooding in a sufficiently low-spirited manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They were brooding upon the mystery of the stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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