There were eight eggs but one egg didn't hatch and the goose told Templeton she didn't want it any more, so he took it away.

弗恩回答说，“本来有八个蛋，可是有一个坏掉了。母鹅告诉邓普利顿说它不再想要那个坏了的蛋了，所以，邓普利顿便带走了它。”

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"Look," he began in his sharp voice, "you say you have seven goslings. There were eight eggs. What happened to the other egg? Why didn't it hatch?"

“看。”它突然开口说，嗓子又尖双细；“你说你孵了七只小鹅，但是这里有八只蛋，还有一只怎么了，为什么没有孵成小鹅呢？”

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When egg whites are beaten they can rise to seven or eight times their original volume.

打过的蛋清，体积可以涨到原来的七八倍。

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Antinori first attracted controversy when he helped a 62-year-old woman have a baby eight years ago by implanting an egg in her womb.

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The chicken-egg method requires up to eight months of lead time.

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