敦促或鼓励（某人）做通常是愚蠢或危险的事情
egg on // [ egging egged eggs ]
动词词组 If you egg a person on, you encourage them to do something, especially something dangerous or foolish. 怂恿
He was lifting up handfuls of leaves and throwing them at her. She was laughing and egging him on.
他正抓起把把树叶朝她扔去。她笑着，怂恿他继续扔。
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You've got some egg on your shirt.
你的衬衣上沾了些蛋。
They were left with egg on their faces when only ten people showed up.
只有十人到场，他们感到很丢面子。
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。
On Saturday,the Brooklyn Bridge Park will welcome children and their families for an egg hunt.
VOA : special.2011.04.22
So on the personality theory, I did not exist when that fertilized egg came into being, when the egg and the sperm joined.
所以在人格理论上，卵子受精的时候我还不存在，卵子和精子结合时。
死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
This one cell, this one fertilized cell which is unique because it's the - its chromosome contains the combination of the sperm and the egg, develops into an embryo and then on birth develops into a human.
这个受精卵,是独一无二的,因为它的染色体,包含了精子和卵子的组合,并由此发育成为一个胚胎,之后形成一个人类个体
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"The mission found that the attack on the only remaining flour-producing factory, the destruction of a large part of the Gaza egg production, the bulldozing of huge tracts of agricultural land, and the bombing of some could not on any basis be justified on military grounds.
VOA : standard.2009.09.29
The opposite turned out to be true, and Dimon wound up with egg on his face.
Alas, one of Howard Schultz's first major moves has left Starbucks with egg on its face.
Privacy lovers in Germany have egg on their house faces, thanks to a crew of Google-loving vigilantes.