How they sang.And a few weeks later when a tiny chick hatched, their happiness seemed to know no bounds.

阳光和雪球高兴地欢唱着。几个星期后，一只小鸟破壳而出，它们欣喜万分。

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Later one day, when we looked upward, we unexpectedly saw a freshly hatched chick walking about in the nest. The chicken eggs had hatched!

过了几天，我们无意间抬头一看，只见一只刚出窝的小鸡在窝边走来走去，小鸡果真被孵出来了！

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Two years later, Mr Schwerin joined and hatched the idea of buying from companies' employees and other investors with management's blessing.

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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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ThermoTrex has already hatched its own fledglings: ThermoLase, spun out in July 1994, and Trex Medical, spun out two years later.

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