If they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces.

如果他们轻率地对待这场比赛，他们可能会以出洋相收场。

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Actually you can balance an egg on its end any day of the year. Have a try for fun.

事实上，这一年里的任何一天，你都可以把鸡蛋直立起来。尝试一下吧，很有趣的。

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If you do that, you will end up with an egg on your face.

如果你做了那件事，你就会落得个难堪的下场。

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The crucial point in thinking about this is to realize that every time you combine a different egg with a different sperm ? you end up with a different person, right?

考虑这个问题的关键一点是,明白每一次,你把一个不同的卵细胞和一个不同的精子结合,都会产生一个不同的人，对吗？

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Even those earning minimum wage would accumulate a meaningful nest egg by the end of their work lives.

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Not anymore, those two protruding rings provide the locomotion while each end of the egg spins freely of both the rings and that Sony branded trunk.

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This, however, is no mere frivolous argument about which end of a boiled egg to open first.

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