| 单词 | spawn |
| 释义 | spawn (spɔːn ) Word forms: spawns , spawning , spawned 1. uncountable noun [usually noun NOUN] Spawn is a soft, jelly-like substance containing the eggs of fish, or of animals such as frogs. ...her passion for collecting frog spawn. Synonyms: offspring, issue, product, seed [mainly biblical] 2. verb When fish or animals such as frogs spawn, they lay their eggs. ...fish species like salmon and trout which go upstream, spawn and then die. [VERB] The toads have settled in and accepted the pond as a good spawning ground. [VERB-ing] 3. verb If something spawns something else, it causes it to happen or to be created. [literary] Tyndall's inspired work spawned a whole new branch of science. [VERB noun] He wrote 54 crime novels, which spawned both movies and television shows. [VERB noun] Synonyms: generate, produce, give rise to, start Collocations: spawn a host of Dublin spawned a host of literary greats. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The rise of the electronic cigarette has spawned a host of British success stories. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It later spawned a series of sequels with equally high body counts. Times, Sunday Times This theory has spawned a series of new observations that investigators are reporting in the literature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The game spawned a series of follow up games which were released throughout the 1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It spawned a series of successors, each revolving around a central theme. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The novel, written in 1979, spawned a series of books, and the plot has been adapted to theatre, radio, cinema, and television. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Exactly what the storm was remains unclear - it has been described variously as a nor'wester and a cyclone and also spawned a tornado. Times, Sunday Times The thunderstorm that had spawned the tornado probably lifted the loose papers into vigorous updraughts, and when the winds died down dropped them far away. Times, Sunday Times The cyclone spawned a tornado which moved across the northwest section of the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The global financial crisis in 2008 spawned a wave of new cases for many years afterwards, he pointed out. Times,Sunday Times It also spawned a wave of electronic music artists, mostly house, techno and trance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This obsession with proper social conduct spawned a wave of novels concerned with this sort of behaviour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 卵 Japanese: 卵水生動物の |
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