NOT long ago, the news was full of reports about two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Germany that adopted an egg, hatched it and reared the chick together.

前不久，许多媒体报道了德国动物园两只雄性洪堡企鹅，它们如何共同领养了一枚鸡蛋，然后又共同哺育孵化出小鸡。

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If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg.

如果袋鼠生的蛋孵出了鸵鸟，那应当说它是一只鸵鸟蛋，而非袋鼠蛋。

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They may be some very good ideas, plans or creative action that can only be hatched by spending the necessary time to squat on our "egg."

这个蛋可能是一些非常好的点子、计划，或有创意的行动。而这些是需要花费时间匍匐在“蛋”上才能被孵育出来。

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Winters played Mearth, Mork's son, who -- having hatched from a giant egg -- was the size of an adult but had the mind of a child.

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Many aspects of Puzzle and Dragons can be likened to systems found in the Puzzle Quest series , as players assemble an army of egg-hatched monsters that can be leveled and evolved to increase their stats and abilities.

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Ohio Fresh's predecessor company, Buckeye Egg Farm, was hatched in the early 1980s by Anton Pohlmann, who was later banned from owning farms in his native Germany for abusing his livestock and an employee, who was sickened by the nicotine spray used to fight parasites on chickens.

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