breed
英[bri?d]
美[brid]
- vi. 繁殖；飼養；產生
- vt. 繁殖；飼養；養育，教育；引起
- n. [生物] 品種；種類，類型
- n. (Breed)人名；(英)布里德
詞態變化
復數:?breeds;第三人稱單數:?breeds;過去式:?bred;過去分詞:?bred;現在分詞:?breeding;
中文詞源
breed 繁殖
詞源同brew, 蒸，加熱。原指小雞孵化的過程。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. a hardy breed of sheep
- 適應力強的綿羊品種
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. a rare breed of miniature horses
- 一種罕見的小矮馬
來自《權威詞典》
- 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.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》