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

• 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。
• Migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn.
  从海洋迁徙到淡水来产卵。
• There was lots of discussion about data and about how open platforms will spawn a new genetics application industry.
  美国人类遗传学协会的这次会议探讨了许多有关数据的问题，而另一个热门话题是公开平台怎样催生新的遗传学应用产业。
• There are certain spawn points and it will move.
  有某些卵点并且它将运动。
• This test application will spawn threads and will keep waiting ( blocked).
  这个测试应用程序会派生几个线程，并让其等待（被阻塞）。
• For effective processing integrity it is not good to spawn additional threads in the message flow nodes.
  为了获得有效的处理完整性，最好不要在消息流节点中产生其他线程。
• 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。
• Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn.
  在淡水中生活但回到海水中产卵的鳗鲡。
• 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 salmon swims upstream to spawn.
  这条鲑鱼游到上游去产卵。