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An Easter "Eggstravaganza"

People make Easter eggs to celebrate the holiday in a beautiful way

People like them scrambled, fried, boiled and poached -- but around Easter time, they take on a whole new look. Lowly eggs take on new significance in the days an weeks before Easter when they become one of the centerpieces of the Christian holiday.

Earliest traditions
The earliest tradition of coloring and giving Easter eggs came about 50 years after Christ's death and resurrection. Bright red eggs symbolized the blood of Jesus that saves people from their sins. When two friends met on Easter Day, they would tap their eggs together and one would say, "Christ is risen!" And then the other would reply, "Christ is risen indeed!"
They would then eat the eggs together. Spring festivals in Persia Egypt, Greece and Rome all featured colored eggs. Then in the 15th century, the Crusaders carried the idea throughout Europe. Once the custom of coloring eggs became established in the West, superstitions arose. People believed if they kept eggs that had been laid on Good Friday for 100 year, the yolks would turn to diamonds. And if a person were lucky enough to find an egg with two yolks, he or she would soon become rich!



poach v.
-> boiled in a liquid
eg: I prefer poached eggs to fried ones because they are lower in fat.

lowly adj. 地位卑下的
-> humble/easy
eg: The lowly students looked up to the great professor.
eg: His first job was a lowly worker in a factory.
eg: Even though Kate comes from lowly origins, she struggles to succeed and ends up as a CEO of a company.

symbolize v. 象徵
symbol n.
eg: A white dove symbolizes peace.
eg: A white wedding gown symbolizes the purity of the bride.
eg: The natives gave us a necklace that symbolizes the friendship between us.

superstition n. 迷信
-> belief or fear that some people have that is based on some kind of circumstance
eg: You won't have bad luck if you walk under a ladder. That's just a superstition.
eg: Breaking a mirror brings one seven years of bad luck. (superstition)
eg: People believe superstitions because of fear.
eg: According to the superstition, number 13 is an unlucky number.

Eggstravaganza

resurrection 復活
-> rose from death

Crusader 十字軍戰士

Good Friday 復活節前的星期五/耶穌受難日

yolk n. 蛋黃

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eggstravaganza (諧音設計出來的雙關語)
extravaganza 新奇的事物

pun 諧音
-> have the sound but different meanings

spectacular
spooktacular
Hollowen spooktacular

spook v.被驚嚇到