broody

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You know just from the title what that movie's gonna be like. Broody.
你只要看到电影标题就知道影片会是什么风格，血腥，忧愁。
So perhaps it was broody Victoria's choice to choose pink toenails for the only other girl in the family.
因此给家里唯一一个“女孩”装饰粉红色指甲可能是多产的维多利亚的选择。
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.
年龄更大一些的男人们也比女人更想要小孩：年龄在35岁到44岁之间的单身男人中有27%想要小孩，而同年龄段的女人只有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.
对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。
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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.