Chicken-and-Egg

中文含义： 鸡生蛋，蛋生鸡，互为因果，不可分割

英语词性： idiom

美式音标： /ˈtʃɪkən ən ɛɡ/

同义词： catch-22, vicious circle, circular reasoning

易混淆单词： egg-and-spoon race (一种孩子们比赛的运动项目)

双语例句：

  • It’s a chicken-and-egg situation, we can’t decide whether to spend more money on marketing until we have more customers, or we can’t get more customers without spending more on marketing.
  • The question of whether the biological chicken or the egg came first is a classic example of a chicken-and-egg problem that is still debated by scientists today.