释义 |
missing linkˌmissing ˈlink noun [countable]  - Police continue looking for missing links in the Stewart murder case.
- David Henshaw of Bristol University says the discovery is the missing link that shows how power lines can cause cancer clusters.
- Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.
- The modern expression does not include the missing link, spirituality.
- The steam engine was the missing link.
1a piece of information that you need in order to solve a problem: Could this be the missing link in the search for a cure for cancer?2the missing link an animal which was a stage in the development of humans from apes, whose bones have not yet been found |