brook

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 brŏŏk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. Northeastern,US
    — empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
  2. A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground. Kent
动词 v.
  1. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate. formal,transitive
    — brook no refusal
  2. To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold. transitive
    — Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?
  3. To earn; deserve. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

brooks present,singular,third-person brooking participle,present brooked participle,past brooked past brooks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abrook unbrookable Common nouns American brook char American brook charr babbling brook broker brook alder brookie brook lamprey brookless brooklet brooklike brooklime brook mint brookside brook springfly brook trout brook wakerobin brookweed Proper nouns Allynbrook Anniebrook Ashbrook Bellbrook Bessbrook Blakebrook Bonnie Brook Boorara Brook Bound Brook Boyup Brook Braybrook Briarbrook Broad Brook Brookdale Brooker Brookfield Brookhampton Brookhaven Brookhill Brooklana Brooklands Brooklyn Brooklyn Park Brooksbank Brooks Bay Brookstead Brook Street Brookton Brookvale Brookville Brookwater Bullsbrook Bybrook By Brook Carbrook Carisbrook Carrowbrook Cherrybrook Colbrook Colebrook Cranbrook Cranebrook Cressbrook Cressbrook Creek Crooked Brook Crystalbrook Crystal Brook Dartbrook Donnybrook Eastbrook Ellenbrook Englesea-brook Falbrook Fernbrook Fossilbrook Gagebrook Gembrook Glenbrook Glendon Brook Gordonbrook Grindley Brook Hazelbrook Henley Brook Hester Brook Hinchinbrook Holbrook Holcombe Brook Huonbrook Jane Brook Kersbrook Keysbrook Kithbrook Leabrook Lennard Brook Lethebrook Lewinsbrook Lower Cressbrook Lynbrook Marybrook Meadowbrook Middlebrook Middle Brook Middle Falbrook Millbrook Moonan Brook Muswellbrook Nanga Brook Nectar Brook Pickering Brook Piesse Brook Pipers Brook Preston Brook Quamby Brook Rea Brook Ripplebrook Rosa Brook Rosebrook Rouchel Brook Ryansbrook Saddle Brook Scotts Brook Seabrook Sedgebrook Shannon Brook Smith Brook Southbrook Southern Brook Spencers Brook Springbrook Stamford Brook Stewarts Brook Stockton Brook Swanbrook Thomson Brook Upper Brookfield Upper Dartbrook Wambrook Warabrook Westbrook Woolbrook

词源

词源 1
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).
词源 2
From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
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