• vi. 繁殖；飼養；產生
• vt. 繁殖；飼養；養育，教育；引起
• n. [生物] 品種；種類，類型
• n. (Breed)人名；(英)布里德

詞源同brew, 蒸，加熱。原指小雞孵化的過程。

breed

breed: [OE] The Old English verb brēdan came from West Germanic *brōdjan, a derivative of *brōd-, which produced brood. This in turn was based on *brō-, whose ultimate source was the Indo-European base *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of breed is thus not ‘reproduction’ so much as ‘incubation, the warmth which promotes hatching’.
=> braise, brawn, breath, brood

breed (v.)

Old English bredan "bring young to birth, carry," also "cherish, keep warm," from West Germanic *brodjan (cognates: Old High German bruoten, German brüten "to brood, hatch"), from *brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE *bhreue- "burn, heat" (see brood (n.)). Original notion of the word was incubation, warming to hatch. Sense of "grow up, be reared" (in a clan, etc.) is late 14c. Related: Bred; breeding.

breed (n.)

"race, lineage, stock" (originally of animals), 1550s, from breed (v.). Of persons, from 1590s. Meaning "kind, species" is from 1580s.

1. If they are unemployed it's bound to breed resentment.

如果他們失去工作，一定會產生怨恨。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Many animals breed only at certain times of the year.

很多動物只在一年的某個時候交配繁殖。

來自《權威詞典》

3. a hardy breed of sheep

適應力強的綿羊品種

來自《權威詞典》

4. a rare breed of miniature horses

一種罕見的小矮馬

來自《權威詞典》

5. The parents are trying to breed their son a musician.

這對父母盡力要把兒子培養成為音樂家.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》