| 词汇 | spawn |
| 释义 | spawnWord family nounspawnerspawningspawnadjectivespawny Animals, Fish spawn1 /spɔːn $ spɒːn/ verb 1 [transitiveT]CAUSE to make a series of things happen or start to exist 使大量出现，使大量产生；酿成 New technology has spawned new business opportunities. 新技术创造了大量新的商机。 2. [intransitiveI, transitiveT]HBAHBF if a fish or frog spawns, it produces eggs in large quantities at the same time 〔鱼或蛙〕大量产卵 Examples from the Corpus spawn• The Mac creators are emblematic of a new kind of artist spawned by the protean nature of the computer.• Through the information technologies they have spawned, computers step up the pace of the ticking.• The shortages naturally spawned corruption as officials, themselves impoverished, exchanged favors for bribes.• There is no mechanism whereby clouds of particular shapes can spawn daughter clouds resembling themselves.• I have a cynical notion that all religious revivals spawn from times of extreme economic disparity.• It also involved the fate of the greatest spawning run of salmon in the world.• The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 spawned the 1973 oil crisis.• When the Discus spawn the eggs will hatch in 60 hours. Animals, Fish spawn2 noun [uncountableU] HBAHBFthe eggs of a fish or frog laid together in a soft mass 〔鱼或蛙的〕成团的卵 Examples from the Corpus spawn• Daemon spawn won't be able to home in and manifest themselves.• It appears from monitoring equipment on individual trout that about 75 percent of these fish are from natural spawn.• Triumph followed triumph for the spawn of Naggaroth.• She then releases the spawn, trailing it in and amongst the stems and foliage of submerged plant life.• We're all children of the Serpent, the spawn of the Form Manipulator.• An older pair tending their spawn. (1400-1500) Anglo-French espaundre, from Old French espandre “to spread out”, from Latin expandere; → EXPAND |
| 随便看 |
时代网英语在线翻译词典收录了283110条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。