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brook
verb
 formaluk /brʊk/ us /brʊk/
 brook no something/not brook something
to not allow or accept something, especially a difference of opinion or intention: 不容忍;不接纳（尤指异议）
She won't brook any criticism of her work.她不能容忍任何对她工作的批评。

brook | American Dictionary

brook
noun[ C ]
us/brʊk/

brooknoun[C] (STREAM)

a small stream:
A brook runs past the house.
brook
verb[ T ]
us/brʊk/

brookverb[T] (ALLOW)

to allow or accept something, esp. a difference of opinion or intention:
She won’t brook any criticism of her work.

Examples of brook

brook
Nevertheless, in the southern portion of the basin, year-round agriculture can be practiced in various locations, where permanent springs and brooks naturally irrigate the soil.
In the study area only small patches of primary forest remained near rivers and brooks.
Most employers brooked no interference.
He declared willow pollards could be planted with great profit by the sides of brooks and rivers, but preferred coppicing as a way of obtaining long and clean stems.
The constructed realm of the head was contentious, fractious, domineering which brooked no dissent; that of the heart experienced love, affection, humanism and therefore was universalist.
Beside the brook, the blocks of flats are 5 storeys high to exploit the most attractive view.
The woman anthropomorphizes the brook, and assigning a fictive human agency to the brook soon becomes important.
The realities of modern war do not brook much choice in the matter.
They will both be committed to the brook, which will unite them further.
Brook leaned her long frame backward and rested her neck on his shoulder.
Metres 5.18-19, 'the clear brook is stirred and mixed up'.
Every sunken road and field, every copse and brook and river, every shell-crater and trench represents a point of brief safety or mortal danger, a point of life or death.
We'll both be married to the brook.
The only weakness is ours in brooking such perceptions, such goings-on and such leaders.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The nation must be alerted to the fact that this brooks no further delay.
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