A Frenchman wants to eat eggs in a restaurant. But he does not know how to say eggs in English. He thinks and thinks. Then he sees a book with a picture of a hen on the table. He asks the woman in the restaurant, "What”s the English for a hen”s child?" The woman says,"It”s a chick." Then the Frienchman asks,"What”s a chick before they are bron?" "It”s an egg,"says the woman . "that”s right.Give me four eggs, plase." 

 NOTES: 

1:hen母雞 

2:chick小雞 

3:born出生的