Males stand and protect the egg by balancing them on their feet and covering them with feathered skin known as a brood pouch.

雄性站在那里保护这个卵，用双脚保持它的平衡，并用被称为育儿袋的有羽毛的皮肤覆盖着它。

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An older egg will stand up on one end and if the eggs are REALLY old, they may even float.

不新鲜的鸡蛋将竖立起来，如果鸡蛋确实很不新鲜，它们甚至可以浮动。

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Filippo then issued a challenge, saying that the commission to build the dome should be given to the man who could make an egg stand on end, as that man would have the skills required for the job.

菲利波随后出了个难题，他说：谁能把鸡蛋立起来，谁就有能力建造穹顶，那么委员会就应该把任务委派给他。

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As a matter of novelistic accuracy, however, this area was more likely a stand-in for the old-moneyed East Egg in the novel, while the arriviste nouveau riche estate of Gatsby was probably located across Manhasset Bay in Great Neck (West Egg).

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Let the neighbors rig up their 40-foot, live-candle Christmas tree or present little pots of caviar so precious that each egg is like the last stand of an endangered species.

FORBES: It's a beautiful thing for the holidays.