When they heard he was intent on carving eggs his friends ridiculed him saying that if it could be done it would have been done a long time ago, and even if it hadn't, it was next to impossible that he would be the one to do it now.
聽到他要雕刻蛋，所有的朋友都笑岔了氣，嗤之以鼻的勸告他，如果能雕，早就有人雕了，不可能輪到他來做。