spawn
spawn 英 [spɔ:n] 美 [spɔn]
n. 卵；菌丝；产物 vt. 产卵；酿成，造成；大量生产 vi. 产卵；大量生产
进行时:spawning 过去式:spawned 过去分词:spawned 第三人称单数:spawns 名词复数:spawns
- Technically, the mass of small eggs laid by animals like fish, frogs, mollusks is called spawn. But the word has been borrowed to mean offspring, or the act of making them in general.
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- n. 卵；菌丝；产物
- vt. 产卵；酿成，造成；大量生产
- vi. 产卵；大量生产
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1. Many sea fishes spawn in rivers.
许多海洋鱼类是在淡水河里产卵的。
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2. Despite living in different waters, all eels spawn in the sea.
尽管生活在不同的水域，所有的鳗鱼都在海里产卵。
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3. But nobody knows how they do it with such accuracy, or why eels spawn where they do.
但是，没有人知道它们如何做到那么准确，或是鳗鱼为什么要在大海里产卵。
- spawn (n.) late 15c., "fish eggs," from spawn (v.); figurative sense of "brood, offspring," and, insultingly, of persons, is from 1580s.
- spawn (v.) c. 1400, intransitive, from Anglo-French espaundre, Old French espandre "to spread out, pour out, scatter, strew, spawn (of fish)" (Modern French épandre), from Latin expandere "to spread out, unfold, expand," from ex "out" (see ex-) + pandere "to spread, stretch" (from nasalized form of PIE root *pete- "to spread"). The notion is of a "spreading out" of fish eggs released in water. The transitive meaning "to engender, give rise to" is attested from 1590s. Related: Spawned; spawning.
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