(noun.) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; 'the spring was broken'.

(noun.) a point at which water issues forth.

(noun.) a natural flow of ground water.

(noun.) the season of growth; 'the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring'; 'he will hold office until the spring of next year'.

(verb.) develop suddenly; 'The tire sprang a leak'.

(verb.) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; 'He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving'.

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• To Gudrun this day was full of a promise like spring. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• In the spring of 1862 the Monitor met the Merrimac in engagement in Hampton Roads, and established the great value of the turret monitor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Will it spring, will it leap out if I approach? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• When I _sor_ him (such was Mr. Donne's pronunciation) about to spring, I thought I should have fainted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游記.
• Yes; and of the lake and the springs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But immediately afterwards the armature springs backward and makes contact at _P_ and the entire operation is repeated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• The union of a number of springs forms a river. 本杰明·富蘭克林. 富蘭克林自傳.
• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• He has warned us twice, replied Justinian, as he walked out into the court with the poet; once by the earthquake, again by the springs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• As our visitor concluded, Holmes sprang up without a word, handed me my hat, picked his own from the table, and followed Dr. Trevelyan to the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• He sprang up behind the carriage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• The King sprang from his seat with a gesture of anger. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Or could Bertha--the dread alternative sprang on her suddenly--could Bertha, left to herself, have gone ashore to rejoin him? 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• At sight of us the members of the guard sprang forward in surprise, and with levelled rifles halted us. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• V ARKWRIGHT AND THE SPINNING-JENNY 1732-1792 All the great English inventors have sprung from families of small means, and have had to work for their living. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The living spirit of the republic, it seemed, had sprung from a slaughter of royalists and the execution of the king. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• A breeze had sprung up, swaying inward the muslin curtains, and bringing a fresh scent of mignonette and petunias from the flower-box on the balcony. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• No longer a serf, but a freeman and a landholder, Gurth sprung upon his feet, and twice bounded aloft to almost his own height from the ground. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Suddenly he raised his bearded face, saw us close to him, and pulled up, springing from his machine. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• Scarcely had it started than I gave the signal to Tars Tarkas, simultaneously springing for the receding half of the pivoting door. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• Twice lately there has been a crash and a cloud of dust, like the springing of a mine, in Tom-all-Alone's; and each time a house has fallen. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Now, I'll go down to, and go away with, Mr Lightwood,' said Bella, springing up. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Do this, cried Crispin, springing up and clasping Justinian by the hand, and I will be your friend for life! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.

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