European monarchs sipped concoctions made from venezuelan cacao .
欧洲国家的君主们都饮由委内瑞拉可可调制的佳肴。
Even eggs , seemingly sacrosanct in their shells , have turned out not to be eggs at all but man-made concoctions of chemicals , gelatin and paraffin .
甚至是蛋，看似带壳的神圣不可侵犯，结果也根本不是蛋，而是用化学物质明胶和石蜡人工合成的。
He also brushed off the dangers of wall street concoctions such as derivatives .
他也没有承认华尔街的那些类似衍生产品的混合物。
Most of the time , only plain water is used during this procedure but other concoctions can be used as well , such as saline .
