hard-boil
verb [ T ] uk/ˌhɑːdˈbɔɪl/ us/ˌhɑːrdˈbɔɪl/
将(鸡蛋)煮至全熟
If you hard-boil an egg, you heat it in its shell in boiling water until both the white and yellow parts are solid.
I like to hard-boil my eggs for at least ten minutes.
At Easter, they like to hard-boil eggs and then decorate them. 复活节的时候,他们喜欢把鸡蛋煮至全熟,然后进行装饰。
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- He hard-boiled six eggs, let them cool, and then chopped them and mixed them with mayonnaise.
- I had to teach my son some basic cooking skills before he went to university, such as how to hard-boil an egg.