spawn
verb /spɔːn/
/spɔːn/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they spawn | /spɔːn/ /spɔːn/ |
| he / she / it spawns | /spɔːnz/ /spɔːnz/ |
| past simple spawned | /spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/ |
| past participle spawned | /spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/ |
| -ing form spawning | /ˈspɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈspɔːnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] spawn (something) (of fish, frogs, etc.
鱼、蛙等 产卵 - [transitive] spawn something (often disapproving) to cause something to develop or be produced
引发；引起；导致；造成 - The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
这支乐队的专辑带出一连串走红的单曲。
- The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
词源late Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.