| 释义 |
| | | | ADJ only before noun | | | | | | a chicken-and-egg situation is one where it is impossible to say which of two things happened first or caused the other to happen 孰先孰后难定的；因果难定的 | | Word story: ˌchicken-and-ˈegg | | | | From the question: ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg?’ , which is impossible to answer because neither could exist without the other. | | | | | |