broody hen
常见例句
- Now the foreign goose - egg was set under the broody hen and in due time a wonderful gosling hatched out.
那衹外國鵞蛋被放到了抱窩母雞的肚皮下。時間一到，一衹漂亮的小鵞被孵出來。 - Another of the accused, a coarse woman, not unlike a fat broody hen but with a spiteful tongue, was visibly worked up.
另一個被告，一個粗野的女人，與喜好伏窩的母雞沒有什麽不同，但卻長著一個惡毒的舌頭，顯而易見被激怒了。 - To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.
對母雞來說，這個概唸可能看起來荒謬,世界上有一種生物,對一窩雞蛋,著迷，覺得彌足珍貴,對她而言，永遠不覺得,孵蛋時間太長。
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