brook
brook 英 [brʊk] 美 [brʊk]
vt. 容忍 n. 小溪；小河
进行时:brooking 过去式:brooked 过去分词:brooked 第三人称单数:brooks 名词复数:brooks
- A brook is a small stream. On a hot day, you might enjoy wading in a babbling brook. As a verb, brook is a rather stuffy word for "put up with." The lord of the manor might say, "I will brook no trespassing on my land."
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- vt. 容忍
- n. 小溪；小河
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1. I cannot brook his arrogance.
我不能容忍他的傲慢。
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2. He won't brook any criticism of his work.
他不容忍对他工作的任何批评。
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3. The tone in his voice brooked no argument.
他的声音里透露着一种不容争辩的语调。
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4. The brook trickled through the valley.
小溪涓涓流过峡谷。
- brook (n.) "small natural stream," Old English broc "flowing stream, torrent," of obscure origin, probably from Proto-Germanic *broka- which yielded words in German (Bruch) and Dutch (broek) that have a sense of "marsh, bog." In Sussex and Kent, it means "water-meadow," and in plural, "low, marshy ground."
- brook (v.) "to endure," Old English brucan "to use, enjoy the use of, possess; eat; cohabit with," from Proto-Germanic *bruk- "to make use of, enjoy" (source also of Old Saxon brukan, Old Frisian bruka, Dutch gebruiken "to use," Old High German bruhhan, German brauchen "to use, need," Gothic brukjan), from PIE root *bhrug- "to enjoy." Sense of "use" as applied to food led to "be able to digest," and by 16c. to "endure, tolerate," always in a negative sense. The original meanings have become obsolete.
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