hatch

1. V-T/V-I When a baby bird, insect, or other animal hatches, or when it is hatched, it comes out of its egg by breaking the shell. 使孵出; 孵出

The young disappeared soon after they were hatched. 幼崽孵出後不久就不見了。

2. V-T/V-I When an egg hatches or when a bird, insect, or other animal hatches an egg, the egg breaks open and a baby comes out. 孵化

The eggs hatch after a week or ten days. 這些蛋1周或10天後孵化。

3. V-T If you hatch a plot or a scheme, you think of it and work it out. 策劃

He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the pope. 他曾指責各反對黨隂謀策劃暗殺教皇。

4. V-T to mark (a figure, shade, etc) with fine parallel or crossed lines to indicate shading 在(圖形、投影等上)畫影線[art] →compare hachure

5. N-COUNT A hatch is an opening in the deck of a ship, through which people or cargo can go. You can also refer to the door of this opening as a hatch. 艙口; 艙口蓋

He stuck his head up through the hatch. 他把腦袋伸出艙口。

6. N the act or process of hatching 孵化

7. N hatchback的縮寫[非正式] →short for hatchback