Easter egg

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
    — Because eggs were inexpensive in most regions, the practice of decorating Easter eggs crossed all social classes and remained somewhat simple.
  2. A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
    — I reached the first fork in the tree and there they lay—several melted Easter eggs[…] Quickly I tore open the foil and licked the melted chocolate until there wasn't a trace left on the paper.
  3. An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
    — an Easter egg that displays the names of the application's development team
  4. Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster. broadly
    — For the Best of Bowie DVD release, APl even concealed an Easter egg within a hidden extra.

词形变化

Easter eggs plural

词源

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei). So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.) The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.
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