spawn

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Related topics: Animals, Fish

1 [transitiveT]CAUSE to make a series of things happen or start to exist 使大量出現，使大量産生；釀成

New technology has spawned new business opportunities.

新技術創造了大量新的商機。

2. [intransitiveI, transitiveT]HBAHBF if a fish or frog spawns, it produces eggs in large quantities at the same time 〔魚或蛙〕大量産卵

Examples from the Corpus

spawn• The Mac creators are emblematic of a new kind of artist spawned by the protean nature of the computer.• Through the information technologies they have spawned, computers step up the pace of the ticking.• The shortages naturally spawned corruption as officials, themselves impoverished, exchanged favors for bribes.• There is no mechanism whereby clouds of particular shapes can spawn daughter clouds resembling themselves.• I have a cynical notion that all religious revivals spawn from times of extreme economic disparity.• It also involved the fate of the greatest spawning run of salmon in the world.• The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 spawned the 1973 oil crisis.• When the Discus spawn the eggs will hatch in 60 hours.