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单词 Easter egg
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Definition of Easter egg in English:

Easter egg

noun
  • 1An artificial chocolate egg or decorated hard-boiled egg given at Easter.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Members are raffling off a giant Easter egg to raise funds to bring CCTV to the town.
    • Easter Bunny steam trains run on Sunday and Monday, for £3.50 for adults and £3 for children, and include an Easter egg.
    • A parent wouldn't have dreamed of presenting a child with felt pens instead of an Easter egg.
    • She was the lucky winner of the giant Easter egg in the local shop.
    • The Mayor and her children are all partial to a good tasting chocolate Easter egg.
    • As we wipe away the smudges of the last chocolate Easter egg, a pang of guilt associated with overindulgence might raise its head.
    • The chocolatier and confectioner spent long hours creating an enormous Easter egg, weighing in at 25 kgs of plain chocolate.
    • The garden centre we visited later that day was huge and had a pet section so we bought Edward a dog Easter egg (made from carob).
    • The primary school raised £800 in two hours by auctioning a giant Easter egg, donated by their local confectioners.
    • A giant Easter egg is the ideal treat for every chocoholic but getting your hands on one may not be an easy task.
    • Jill raised the money by raffling off an huge Easter egg in her school.
    • Every year the school has a competition and the prize is a giant Easter egg.
    • I wiped the chocolate from his face, pried his little sticky fingers apart and took the Easter egg from him.
    • Earlier this month, the school took delivery of a 1m tall Easter egg, which provided enough chocolate for family sized portions.
    • There's a new kind of chocolate Easter egg on sale this year.
  • 2An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Also captivating are the various Easter eggs spread throughout the disc.
    • But the real growth area today is in DVD Easter eggs, with programmers packing movies with concealed outtakes or extra interviews.
    • Finally, there is a really funny Easter egg located in the upper right corner of the main menu.
    • The best thing about the game was finding the Easter egg.
    • Easter eggs are easy to find by exploring the main menu using the remote (look for the lightning bolt to pop up under the main choices).
    • Also on this page is an Easter egg - the trailer for Chicken Run that parodied the Gladiator trailers.
    • Adding an "Easter egg" style link to other New Yorker Video ads seems a poor reward for remote surfing.
    • The disc also offers a trailer for HVE's entire line of Zatoichi DVD releases, housed as an easy-to-find Easter egg.
    • And scattered throughout the menus are some Easter eggs.
    • We also get a widescreen theatrical trailer as well, and a couple of Easter eggs!
    • In the "old days," that is, the 1990s, Easter eggs might include hidden games within games.
 
 

Definition of Easter egg in US English:

Easter egg

nounˈistər ˈˌɛɡ
  • 1A hard-boiled egg that is dyed and often decorated as part of the Easter celebration.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Simultaneously, Faberge created the first Easter egg of the series that is his legacy to the world of fantastical objects.
    • My four-year-old daughter barely looks up from painting an Easter egg and explains to her cousin, ‘They don't agree with the bosses of the countries.’
    • The rabbit represents fertility and the Easter egg in the olden days was a springtime symbol of rebirth.
    • While I was away, he kindly fed the dog but managed to completely overlook the Easter egg I had left in the fridge for him.
    • The children at the nursery and pre-preparatory school were asked by a local house builder to draw an Easter egg and to include a house in the design.
    • Go Easter egg hunting and decorate your own Easter egg from 9am.
    • As it turns out, there were two posters in 2001: one features Faberge's Imperial Renaissance Easter egg, the other a Russian quartz specimen.
    1. 1.1 An artificial egg, typically chocolate, given at Easter, especially to children.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The chocolatier and confectioner spent long hours creating an enormous Easter egg, weighing in at 25 kgs of plain chocolate.
      • There's a new kind of chocolate Easter egg on sale this year.
      • Every year the school has a competition and the prize is a giant Easter egg.
      • She was the lucky winner of the giant Easter egg in the local shop.
      • Earlier this month, the school took delivery of a 1m tall Easter egg, which provided enough chocolate for family sized portions.
      • As we wipe away the smudges of the last chocolate Easter egg, a pang of guilt associated with overindulgence might raise its head.
      • The garden centre we visited later that day was huge and had a pet section so we bought Edward a dog Easter egg (made from carob).
      • The Mayor and her children are all partial to a good tasting chocolate Easter egg.
      • Jill raised the money by raffling off an huge Easter egg in her school.
      • I wiped the chocolate from his face, pried his little sticky fingers apart and took the Easter egg from him.
      • The primary school raised £800 in two hours by auctioning a giant Easter egg, donated by their local confectioners.
      • Members are raffling off a giant Easter egg to raise funds to bring CCTV to the town.
      • A parent wouldn't have dreamed of presenting a child with felt pens instead of an Easter egg.
      • A giant Easter egg is the ideal treat for every chocoholic but getting your hands on one may not be an easy task.
      • Easter Bunny steam trains run on Sunday and Monday, for £3.50 for adults and £3 for children, and include an Easter egg.
  • 2An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the "old days," that is, the 1990s, Easter eggs might include hidden games within games.
    • And scattered throughout the menus are some Easter eggs.
    • We also get a widescreen theatrical trailer as well, and a couple of Easter eggs!
    • The disc also offers a trailer for HVE's entire line of Zatoichi DVD releases, housed as an easy-to-find Easter egg.
    • But the real growth area today is in DVD Easter eggs, with programmers packing movies with concealed outtakes or extra interviews.
    • Finally, there is a really funny Easter egg located in the upper right corner of the main menu.
    • Easter eggs are easy to find by exploring the main menu using the remote (look for the lightning bolt to pop up under the main choices).
    • Also on this page is an Easter egg - the trailer for Chicken Run that parodied the Gladiator trailers.
    • The best thing about the game was finding the Easter egg.
    • Adding an "Easter egg" style link to other New Yorker Video ads seems a poor reward for remote surfing.
    • Also captivating are the various Easter eggs spread throughout the disc.
 
 
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