# rooster immediately crowed
The rooster is a bird that calls out very early in the morning. The loud sound he makes is "crowing."
# a second time
"Second" here is an ordinal number. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal]])
# he broke down
This idiom means that he was overwhelmed with grief and lost control of his emotions. Alternate translation: "he was overwhelmed with grief" or "he lost control of his emotions" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])