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Spawn is what fish and frogs do when they lay huge numbers of eggs at once — the eggs themselves are also called spawn. From that idea, English also uses 'spawn' more generally for anything that suddenly produces a lot of something else: a hit movie can 'spawn' many sequels, or a rumor can 'spawn' more rumors. In video games, 'spawn' also means the moment or place where a character appears in the game — a newer, informal use many students already know from gaming.
(魚、蛙等)產卵;(名詞)卵;引發、衍生出(連續劇spawn出續集等);(電玩用語)重生、出現
組成This probably comes from an old French word related to 'expand' — spreading out in large numbers, like eggs spreading in water.
原始詞典資料17 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。
Spawnname
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A surname.
spawnverb詞源 1/spɔːn/
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To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
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To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
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To bring forth in general.
- The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which
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To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
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To plant with fungal spawn.
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To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
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To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
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video-gamesTo appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
- We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
- Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
- Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.
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Of a person or non-egglaying animal: to be born.
- That kid just spawned and looks like he's already done with life.
- I spawned in Turkey. I wasn't given an option on difficulty. It was automatically set on the hardest.
spawnnoun詞源 2/spɔːn/
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The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
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Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
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Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
- This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
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derogatoryAny germ or seed, even a figurative source.
- Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureThe buds or branches produced from underground stems.
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video-gamesSynonym of spawn point.
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。