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- (British English) something that has some good parts and some bad ones好坏兼有之物；瑕瑜互见之物
- Their investment plan shows the familiar curate's egg pattern of some bits doing well and others doing badly.他们的投资计划显示了人们所熟悉的管理者的鸡蛋模式，即一些部分表现良好，另一些部分表现不佳。
CultureThe phrase comes from a cartoon in the British magazine Punch in 1895, in which a nervous young curate is having breakfast with a bishop. The bishop says 'I'm afraid you've got a bad egg there' and the curate, not wanting to upset the bishop, replies, 'Oh no, my Lord! … Parts of it are excellent!’
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