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You can picture animals having young: a male and a female come together and new life appears, one generation making the next. Everything else in this word grows out of that picture — a farmer steering which animals have young, a situation quietly producing more and more of a feeling, and the noun for what comes out at the end: a type, a line, a kind.

可以想成動物生小孩的畫面：一公一母配在一起，新的生命就出現了，一代接著生出下一代。這個字其他的用法都從這裡長出來——…更多收起可以想成動物生小孩的畫面：一公一母配在一起，新的生命就出現了，一代接著生出下一代。這個字其他的用法都從這裡長出來——農場主人挑著讓哪些動物繁殖、某個處境悄悄養出愈來愈多的某種情緒，還有名詞那一面：生出來的結果，一個品種、一個類型。

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Breedname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A town and unincorporated community therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, named after postmaster George M. Breed.

breedverb/ˈbɹiːd/

  • 1

    To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

    • Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
  • 2

    To give birth to; to be the native place of.

    • A pond breeds fish.
    • A northern country breeds stout men.
  • 3

    To mate.

  • 4

    To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.

  • 5

    To arrange the mating of (specific animals).

    • She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
  • 6

    To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.

    • He tries to breed blue roses.
  • 7

    To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

    • born and bred
    • Ah wretched me! by fates averſe, decreed, / To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed!
  • 8

    To yield or result in.

    • disaster breeds famine
    • familiarity breeds contempt
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteTo be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.

  • 10

    To educate; to instruct; to bring up.

    • No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
    • His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
  • 11

    To produce or obtain by any natural process.

    • Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.
  • 12

    To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.

    • Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breed between 'em!
  • 13

    vulgarslangTo ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.

    • 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive “God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”
    • “ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.

breednoun/ˈbɹiːd/

  • 1

    All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

    • a breed of tulip
    • a breed of animal
  • 2

    A race or lineage; offspring or issue.

    • And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
  • 3

    informalA group of people with shared characteristics.

    • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。