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Spawn Eggs French Spɔ:N N.(鱼等)卵子;V.大量生产 英 N.(鱼等)卵子(The Aquatic

单词 spawn
音标 [spɔ:n]
解释 n.(鱼等)卵子;v.大量生产
红宝书 【英】 n.(鱼等)卵子(the eggs of aquatic animals);v.大量生产(bring forth, generate)
【例】 Bureaucracy spawns many rules that complicate our life.
字源 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.
不择手段背单词 n. (鱼等的)卵; 大批生产的后代; v 产(卵); 大量繁殖
【记】读: 死抱-死死的抱住自己产的卵.
趣味全助记 【记】born 出生,也就是产卵

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