spawn: [14] Spawn is ultimately the same word as expand, and etymologically it denotes the ‘spreading out’ of a fish’s eggs by its shedding them into the water. The word comes from espaundre, an Anglo-Norman variant of Old French espandre ‘spread, shed’. This was descended from Latin expandere ‘spread out’ (source of English expand [15]), a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and pandere ‘spread’. => expand
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 (see expand). 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.
spawn (n.)
late 15c., "fish eggs," from spawn (v.); figurative sense of "brood, offspring," and, insultingly, of persons, is from 1580s.
实用例句
1. You young devil's spawn!
你这小鬼!
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2. Sometimes social conditions spawn great numbers of communal groups.
有时,社会状况酿成了一批共同群体.
来自辞典例句
3. The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.
鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进.
来自辞典例句
4. Abilities ( costs per use ); spawn ammo crates , spawn demo drones.
付费技能:制造弹药箱, 制造爆破机器人.
来自互联网
5. Any flower placed indoors, however, obviously cannot spawn new flowers.
