摘要：山东烟台市民前两天在小区商店里买了2斤鸡蛋，里面竟掺了若干假鸡蛋。煮熟后，蛋黄竟能从地上弹起20厘米。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?

A fake boiled egg was discovered by a resident in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, Jan 9, 2012.

The egg was made by industrial chemicals and food additives, according to Dong Jinshi, an expert at the State Supervision and Inspection Center for environmentally-friendly products. Dong said anartificial egg costs less than 0.1 yuan ($0.016), while a real egg costs about 0.5 yuan.

9日，山东烟台一市民发现了煮熟的假鸡蛋。

国家质量监督检验中心专家称，这种鸡蛋由化工原料和食品添加剂制成，一个假鸡蛋的成本不到0.1元，而一个真鸡蛋的成本约为0.5元。

【讲解】

“假鸡蛋”英文可以说成fake eggs。文中的fake boiled egg是指煮熟的假鸡蛋，假鸡蛋

也有人称其为“人造蛋”(artificial eggs)。fake可以作形容词，指“假的”，相关词组有

fake invoice(假发票), fake note(假钞), fake drug(假药), fake goods (假

货)，fake followers (假粉丝)，fake 还可以做动词，表示“伪造”，还可以作名词，表

示“假货、赝品”。文中 food additives是指食品添加剂。