英语词汇“the tip of the iceberg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. In extended use: something of which the greater part is unknown or unrecognized. Chiefly in the tip of the (also an) iceberg and variants: the smaller, perceptible part of something (esp. a difficulty) which is evidently much larger. [In early use perhaps partly motivated by awareness of the sinking of the RMS Titanic when it was holed below the waterline in a collision with an iceberg in 1912 (see Titanic n.).]

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > a largely unknown problem

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1916 A. J. Todd in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. Sept. 159 We have to recognize that after all reason in men is only the very tip of their iceberg of mental life.

1938 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 9 238/1 The president..sees the glowing sunlit tip of the iceberg. Only the alumni secretary..senses the chill of its huge and submerged segment.

1942 D. Woodruff For Hilaire Belloc 193 The iceberg of existence is vaster, by many times in its hidden bulk, than what appears on the mid-day ocean.

1964 Observer 26 July 10/4 This..situation is illustrated by what is..called the iceberg of disease. Above the surface is the illness we know about.

1987 I. Rankin Knots & Crosses (1998) ii. xi. 74 He did some bouncing for pubs on Lothian Road and dubious drinking-dens around Leith, but that would be the tip of his earning iceberg.

2002 Focus May 87/2 Rumours of BSE equivalents in lamb and chicken are just the tip of the dodgy-eating iceberg.

单词	the tip of the iceberg
释义	> as lemmas the tip of the (also an) iceberg b. In extended use: something of which the greater part is unknown or unrecognized. Chiefly in the tip of the (also an) iceberg and variants: the smaller, perceptible part of something (esp. a difficulty) which is evidently much larger. [In early use perhaps partly motivated by awareness of the sinking of the RMS Titanic when it was holed below the waterline in a collision with an iceberg in 1912 (see Titanic n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > a largely unknown problem iceberg1938 1916 A. J. Todd in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. Sept. 159 We have to recognize that after all reason in men is only the very tip of their iceberg of mental life. 1938 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 9 238/1 The president..sees the glowing sunlit tip of the iceberg. Only the alumni secretary..senses the chill of its huge and submerged segment. 1942 D. Woodruff For Hilaire Belloc 193 The iceberg of existence is vaster, by many times in its hidden bulk, than what appears on the mid-day ocean. 1964 Observer 26 July 10/4 This..situation is illustrated by what is..called the iceberg of disease. Above the surface is the illness we know about. 1987 I. Rankin Knots & Crosses (1998) ii. xi. 74 He did some bouncing for pubs on Lothian Road and dubious drinking-dens around Leith, but that would be the tip of his earning iceberg. 2002 Focus May 87/2 Rumours of BSE equivalents in lamb and chicken are just the tip of the dodgy-eating iceberg. extracted from icebergn. < as lemmas
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