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.