broody

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You know just from the title what that movie's gonna be like. Broody.
你衹要看到電影標(biāo)題就知道影片會是什麼風(fēng)格，血腥，憂愁。
So perhaps it was broody Victoria's choice to choose pink toenails for the only other girl in the family.
因此給家裡唯一一個“女孩”裝飾粉紅色指甲可能是多産的維多利亞的選擇。
Men in older age groups were also more broody, with 27 per cent of single guys aged 35 to 44 wanted to have children. But the figure was just 16 per cent for women.
年齡更大一些的男人們也比女人更想要小孩：年齡在35嵗到44嵗之間的單身男人中有27%想要小孩，而同年齡段的女人衹有16%想要小孩。

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(yuǎn)不覺得,孵蛋時間太長。
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The result is a dark and broody palette for leather coats spliced with fur, the colors shifting from black to caramel to brown.
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(WANTING YOUNG) If a hen (= female chicken) is broody, she is ready to produce eggs and sit on them.
(WANTING CHILDREN) If someone, especially a woman, is broody, she feels as if she would like to have a baby.
(WORRIED) always thinking unhappy thoughts

You say that someone is broody when they are thinking a lot about something in an unhappy way.
A broody hen is ready to lay or sit on eggs.