• n. 卵；菌絲；產物
• vt. 產卵；釀成，造成；大量生產
• vi. 產卵；大量生產

來自盎格魯法語 espaundre,來自古法語 espandre,展開，播灑，產卵，來自拉丁語 expandere, 展開，詞源同 expand.引申比喻義引發，導致等。拼寫比較 spouse,sponsor.

spawn

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.

1. You young devil's spawn!

你這小鬼!

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. Sometimes social conditions spawn great numbers of communal groups.

有時,社會狀況釀成了一批共同群體.

來自辭典例句

3. The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.

魚群為產卵而瘋狂地向上游擠進.

來自辭典例句

4. Abilities ( costs per use ); spawn ammo crates , spawn demo drones.

付費技能:制造彈藥箱, 制造爆破機器人.

來自互聯網

5. Any flower placed indoors, however, obviously cannot spawn new flowers.

任何花在屋里安置, 不過, 顯而易見不能大量生產新花.

來自互聯網