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noun brʊkbrʊk A small stream. 小溪 the Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks Example sentencesExamples - The birds sang sweetly, the streams and brooks of Wooden Way gurgled cheerfully.
- Those shots, with lush green glens, babbling brooks, small rock walls, and quaint cottages were simply gorgeous.
- You didn't, because after the Europeans came to this island, they wiped out countless babbling brooks, streams and rivers that flowed throughout the island down from the mountain.
- All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
- A small house stood in the middle of the glade, a brook burbling next to it.
- Hemlock trees love cool, running brooks and rivers; there's hardly a ravine anywhere in the East that isn't clothed with hemlocks.
- Below the balcony there were many acres of grounds, and as far as the eye could see there were brooks, rivers, lakes and forests.
- About 100 projects are planned or under way to restore rivers, streams and brooks to their meandering routes.
- What a civilised way to spend a Sunday morning, a walk on the mountainside by the brooks and streams followed by lunch al fresco.
- The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
- The trek took us through breathtaking mountain scenery along ancient trails, streams, brooks, and rivers.
- Water is omnipresent in Valais, from babbling brooks cascading merrily downhill, to the tranquil, mirrored surface of a mountain lake reflecting majestic summits capped with eternal snow.
- When they spawn, they head into shallow headwater brooks of the river.
- There were tall trees, wide-open planes, meandering streams, babbling brooks, rolling hills, and smart, intelligent people.
- The flow of that water - in brooks, streams, rivulets, rivers, and lakes - frames much of what makes Kentucky so lush and alluring.
- From a fern-fringed pool at the bottom of the waterfall, the brook resumed its winding course toward the Housatonic.
- Later, after they had migrated to Lowell and other textile towns to work in the mills, young women like Sally would look back longingly on the days they spent roaming hillsides, walking along brooks, and lying about in meadows.
- A system of ponds, brooks, and waterfalls originally ran through wooded gorges into 60-acre Prospect Lake.
- Seafood is dominant in the diet, for one because the 7,100 islands have a lot of shoreline as well as a lot of rivers, brooks, canals, and flooded rice fields that are sources of fish, crustaceans, and other sea animals.
- Ancient forests, canyons, gentle babbling brooks, great rivers, mangrove swamps, open fields and pristine glaciers so blue that they rival the sky in beauty.
Synonyms stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet, gill Northern English beck British dialect bourn Australian/New Zealand billabong Scottish & Northern English informal burn North American & Australian/New Zealand creek
Derivativesnoun ˈbrʊklətˈbrʊklət In the heart of the department, Puy de Dome is this lovely place, encircled by beautiful hills, rippling brooklets with waterfalls and various mountain lakes. Example sentencesExamples - In your dreaming state, you are quick about everything, just as the streams are so quick when in the mountains, the rivulets, the brooklets are so quick and so rapid, so gushing, and so playful.
- We'll hunt in a circuit that follows one of the big stream's feeder brooklets up into the hills beyond Mister Kulig's farm, then follow another brook back down again.
- The bunkers of the fort have been transformed into largest rock garden in The Netherlands, which is complemented by hill brooklets and a waterfall.
- The trout of the brooklets are in a class by themselves.
OriginOld English brōc, of unknown origin; related to Dutch broek and German Bruch 'marsh'. Rhymesbetook, book, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook verb brʊkbrʊk formal with object and negative Tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition) 〈正式〉容忍，允许（尤指不同意见或反对意见） Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew 詹妮不会容忍任何对马修的批评。 Example sentencesExamples - Castro brooked no opposition to his régime, and many Cubans started to flee the island, first by the hundreds, then by the thousands.
- So, these films were going from extreme to the other, from one end of the spectrum when the Soviet-style communism brooked no criticism, demanded artistic allegiance to the party and rosy portrayals of life.
- The internal life of their organizations was manipulated from the top and brooked no dissent.
- The tone he used brooked no protest, and there was a sense of finality to it that I know she heard, because he chin shook a little until she firmed her lips and turned blazing eyes toward me.
- All of them were remarkable, whether it was headstrong Farzana who brooked no opposition to her determination or whether it was the resolute Shahida who despite her own shaky life became the anchor of her extended family.
- She has that New York flair that I remember well from growing up there, alongside a belief in her abilities that brooks little opposition - and why should it?
- As Singapore's first prime minister, he brooked no political opposition for 31 years of tough rule, before stepping down.
- He appears to be like a dictator who can brook no dissent.
- The fact that Annan is in the spotlight over the oil-for-food scandal demonstrates that the US is not willing to brook any opposition.
- He was determined to put upon the unconverted the burden of responsibility, and brooked no opposition from metaphysicians… the message of Finney was wholly American.
- Getting his hands on the LSE is Seifert's dream and he will brook no opposition.
- That makes four times that members of the Government have clearly broken your rule, Mr Speaker, that you would be brooking none of that behaviour, yet it is the Opposition members who have been getting pulled up.
- This school brooks no dissent and does not see itself as competing with other philosophies.
- Like many insurrectionary or protest movements, they brook little dissent within their ranks.
- His selection amounts to a declaration that the US government will brook no international opposition to its predatory designs.
- Their purpose is to disorient the public and put the media establishment and the Democrats on notice that no opposition to Bush's policies will be brooked.
- But confidentiality has gotten the ICRC remarkable access and - as countless prisoners over the years have testified - has improved conditions for detainees of regimes not known for brooking public criticism.
- They took a sound methodology and made it a dogma that brooked no opposition, even from reality.
- Herod was frightened by the potential competition, for he brooked no opposition or competition for the affections of people's hearts.
- To his critics, Tony Blair has been cast as a stooge to President Bush's vision for a new American global hegemony that brooks no opposition.
Synonyms tolerate, allow, stand, bear, abide, stomach, swallow, put up with, go along with, endure, suffer, withstand, cope with accept, permit, admit of, countenance Scottish thole informal stand for, stick, hack
OriginOld English brūcan 'use, possess', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century, a figurative use of an earlier sense 'digest, stomach'. nounbrʊkbro͝ok A small stream. 小溪 the Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks Example sentencesExamples - Water is omnipresent in Valais, from babbling brooks cascading merrily downhill, to the tranquil, mirrored surface of a mountain lake reflecting majestic summits capped with eternal snow.
- About 100 projects are planned or under way to restore rivers, streams and brooks to their meandering routes.
- The trek took us through breathtaking mountain scenery along ancient trails, streams, brooks, and rivers.
- A system of ponds, brooks, and waterfalls originally ran through wooded gorges into 60-acre Prospect Lake.
- When they spawn, they head into shallow headwater brooks of the river.
- What a civilised way to spend a Sunday morning, a walk on the mountainside by the brooks and streams followed by lunch al fresco.
- The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
- Those shots, with lush green glens, babbling brooks, small rock walls, and quaint cottages were simply gorgeous.
- Ancient forests, canyons, gentle babbling brooks, great rivers, mangrove swamps, open fields and pristine glaciers so blue that they rival the sky in beauty.
- Later, after they had migrated to Lowell and other textile towns to work in the mills, young women like Sally would look back longingly on the days they spent roaming hillsides, walking along brooks, and lying about in meadows.
- The birds sang sweetly, the streams and brooks of Wooden Way gurgled cheerfully.
- A small house stood in the middle of the glade, a brook burbling next to it.
- All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
- Below the balcony there were many acres of grounds, and as far as the eye could see there were brooks, rivers, lakes and forests.
- Seafood is dominant in the diet, for one because the 7,100 islands have a lot of shoreline as well as a lot of rivers, brooks, canals, and flooded rice fields that are sources of fish, crustaceans, and other sea animals.
- You didn't, because after the Europeans came to this island, they wiped out countless babbling brooks, streams and rivers that flowed throughout the island down from the mountain.
- There were tall trees, wide-open planes, meandering streams, babbling brooks, rolling hills, and smart, intelligent people.
- Hemlock trees love cool, running brooks and rivers; there's hardly a ravine anywhere in the East that isn't clothed with hemlocks.
- From a fern-fringed pool at the bottom of the waterfall, the brook resumed its winding course toward the Housatonic.
- The flow of that water - in brooks, streams, rivulets, rivers, and lakes - frames much of what makes Kentucky so lush and alluring.
Synonyms stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet, gill
OriginOld English brōc, of unknown origin; related to Dutch broek and German Bruch ‘marsh’. verbbro͝okbrʊk formal with object and negative Tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition) 〈正式〉容忍，允许（尤指不同意见或反对意见） Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew 詹妮不会容忍任何对马修的批评。 Example sentencesExamples - He appears to be like a dictator who can brook no dissent.
- His selection amounts to a declaration that the US government will brook no international opposition to its predatory designs.
- The internal life of their organizations was manipulated from the top and brooked no dissent.
- To his critics, Tony Blair has been cast as a stooge to President Bush's vision for a new American global hegemony that brooks no opposition.
- Getting his hands on the LSE is Seifert's dream and he will brook no opposition.
- But confidentiality has gotten the ICRC remarkable access and - as countless prisoners over the years have testified - has improved conditions for detainees of regimes not known for brooking public criticism.
- So, these films were going from extreme to the other, from one end of the spectrum when the Soviet-style communism brooked no criticism, demanded artistic allegiance to the party and rosy portrayals of life.
- Herod was frightened by the potential competition, for he brooked no opposition or competition for the affections of people's hearts.
- They took a sound methodology and made it a dogma that brooked no opposition, even from reality.
- The fact that Annan is in the spotlight over the oil-for-food scandal demonstrates that the US is not willing to brook any opposition.
- That makes four times that members of the Government have clearly broken your rule, Mr Speaker, that you would be brooking none of that behaviour, yet it is the Opposition members who have been getting pulled up.
- He was determined to put upon the unconverted the burden of responsibility, and brooked no opposition from metaphysicians… the message of Finney was wholly American.
- This school brooks no dissent and does not see itself as competing with other philosophies.
- The tone he used brooked no protest, and there was a sense of finality to it that I know she heard, because he chin shook a little until she firmed her lips and turned blazing eyes toward me.
- All of them were remarkable, whether it was headstrong Farzana who brooked no opposition to her determination or whether it was the resolute Shahida who despite her own shaky life became the anchor of her extended family.
- As Singapore's first prime minister, he brooked no political opposition for 31 years of tough rule, before stepping down.
- Like many insurrectionary or protest movements, they brook little dissent within their ranks.
- She has that New York flair that I remember well from growing up there, alongside a belief in her abilities that brooks little opposition - and why should it?
- Their purpose is to disorient the public and put the media establishment and the Democrats on notice that no opposition to Bush's policies will be brooked.
- Castro brooked no opposition to his régime, and many Cubans started to flee the island, first by the hundreds, then by the thousands.
Synonyms tolerate, allow, stand, bear, abide, stomach, swallow, put up with, go along with, endure, suffer, withstand, cope with
OriginOld English brūcan ‘use, possess’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century, a figurative use of an earlier sense ‘digest, stomach’. |