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When something engenders a feeling or a situation, it causes that feeling or situation to start and then grow.
When something engenders a feeling or a situation當某件事engender一種感受或一種局面時， it causes that feeling or situation to start and then grow意思是它讓那種感受或局面開始出現，然後逐漸擴大。
It is not a kitchen word. You do not engender a cake or a chair; you make those. You engender things you cannot hold: trust, fear, respect, anger, debate, confusion.
It is not a kitchen word這不是廚房裡會用的詞。 You do not engender a cake or a chair你不會engender一個蛋糕或一張椅子； you make those那些東西你是「做」出來的。 You engender things you cannot hold你engender的是那些拿不在手上的東西： trust, fear, respect, anger, debate, confusion信任、恐懼、尊重、憤怒、爭論、困惑。
Writers, teachers, and news people like it because it sounds careful and a little formal. In everyday talk, most people would just say cause or lead to.
Writers, teachers, and news people like it作家、老師和新聞工作者喜歡用這個詞， because it sounds careful and a little formal因為聽起來很講究、也有點正式。 In everyday talk, most people would just say cause or lead to在日常對話裡，大部分人就只會說cause或lead to。
Though actually, the word is older than that polite use. For a long time it also meant to bring a child into the world, to beget. That baby-making sense is rare now and lives mostly in old books, but it explains the flavour of the modern word: something is being brought into being, not just knocked over like a domino.
Though actually不過其實， the word is older than that polite use這個字比那個文雅的用法還要古老。 For a long time it also meant to bring a child into the world有很長一段時間，它也指把孩子帶到這個世界上， to beget也就是beget（生育）的意思。 That baby-making sense is rare now and lives mostly in old books那個生育的意思現在很少見，大多只留在老書裡， but it explains the flavour of the modern word但它解釋了這個字現代用法的味道： something is being brought into being, not just knocked over like a domino是「把某個東西帶到存在」，而不是像骨牌一樣被撞倒而已。
The subject is often a situation, a habit, or a way of treating people, not a single bang. Kindness can engender trust slowly. Unfair rules can engender anger fast.
The subject is often a situation, a habit, or a way of treating people句子的主詞通常是一種局面、一個習慣，或對待人的一種方式， not a single bang而不是單一的一下衝擊。 Kindness can engender trust slowly善意可以慢慢engender出信任。 Unfair rules can engender anger fast不公平的規定則可以很快engender出憤怒。
組成From the prefix en- plus gender, through Middle English engendren and Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre (to implant, to beget). The gender piece here is the old “bring into being” sense, not today’s male-or-female meaning.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
engenderverb詞源 1/ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
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obsoleteTo beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
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To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
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To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
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To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
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obsoleteTo copulate, to have sex.
- But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
- I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems, Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far, Me overtook his mother all diſmaid, And in embraces forcible and foule Ingendring with me, of that rape begot Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
engenderverb詞源 2/ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
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To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.
- As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。