spawn

英 [spɔːn]

美 [spɔːn]

v.  产卵; 引发; 引起; 导致; 造成
n.  (鱼、蛙等的)卵

过去分词：spawned　过去式：spawned　现在分词：spawning　第三人称单数：spawns　复数：spawns　

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Collins.1 / BNC.9953 / COCA.6476

牛津词典

verb

• 产卵
  to lay eggs
• 引发；引起；导致；造成
  to cause sth to develop or be produced
  1. The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
     这支乐队的专辑繁衍出一连串走红的单曲唱片。

noun

• （鱼、蛙等的）卵
  a soft substance containing the eggs of fish, frogs etc.

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (鱼、蛙等产下的)卵，子，卵块
  Spawnis a soft, jelly-like substance containing the eggs of fish, or of animals such as frogs.
  1. ...her passion for collecting frog spawn.
     她对采集蛙卵的热爱
• VERB (鱼、蛙等)产卵
  When fish or animals such as frogsspawn, they lay their eggs.
  1. ...fish species like salmon and trout which go upstream, spawn and then die...
     诸如鲑鱼和鳟鱼这样洄游产卵后死去的鱼类
  2. The toads have settled in and accepted the pond as a good spawning ground.
     蟾蜍已经在这个池塘里住下来了，把这里当成了理想的产卵地。
• VERB 产生;造成;引起
  If somethingspawnssomething else, it causes it to happen or to be created.
  1. Tyndall's inspired work spawned a whole new branch of science...
     由廷德尔富有创见的著作发展出了一个崭新的科学分支。
  2. He wrote 54 crime novels, which spawned both movies and television shows.
     他写了 54 部侦探小说，很多被改编成了电影和电视剧。

英英释义

noun

• the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

verb

• lay spawn
  1. The salmon swims upstream to spawn
• call forth
  Synonym:engenderbreed

双语例句

• Adults move offshore to spawn and are sometimes encountered in open water in large schools.
  成人将移动到生成的离岸及开放的水中大学校，有时会遇到。
• Guided by their sense of smell, they will return in a few years to spawn.
  在其嗅觉的指引下，几年后它们会回到这里产卵。
• Any flower placed indoors, however, obviously cannot spawn new flowers.
  任何花在屋里安置，不过，显而易见不能大量生产新花。
• Sometimes social conditions spawn great numbers of communal groups.
  有时，社会状况酿成了一批共同群体。
• Tyndall's inspired work spawned a whole new branch of science
  由廷德尔富有创见的著作发展出了一个崭新的科学分支。
• The prevalence of anonymity in online debates has helped to spawn a culture of aggression.
  在网络辩论中普遍使用匿名助长了一种攻击文化。
• Enable language extensions, for banner messages, and using shell commands with spawn and twist.
  为标题消息启用语言扩展，使用shell命令以及spawn和twist命令。
• The European eel's migration to the Sargasso Sea to spawn is one of nature's great unsolved mysteries.
  欧洲鳗鲡迁移到马尾藻海产卵是大自然未解开的最大的谜团之一。
• Therefore, we use the organization separation and the spore separate two methods to carry on the mold spawn to the wild shiitake the separation and the purification.
  因此，我们采用组织分离和孢子分离两种方法对野生香菇进行菌种的分离和纯化。
• This behavior is different from Solaris, where the su command does not spawn a new shell.
  这种行为与Solaris不同，在Solaris中，su命令不会派生一个新shell。