| 单词 | iceberg |
| 释义 | iceberg (once / 1981 pages) 1n 2n An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that breaks off of a glacier and floats around the ocean. Most of an iceberg is under water and can't be seen; that's how a sneaky iceberg managed to sink the Titanic. Icebergs exist in the coldest waters on the planet — the largest icebergs ever observed have been in Antarctica. An iceberg is blamed in the famous sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and the disaster inspired a new system for tracking and measuring icebergs. Another kind of iceberg is the lettuce, which is crisp and nearly as pale as an actual iceberg. The colloquial "tip of the iceberg" means the smallest hint of a much larger problem. WORD FAMILYiceberg: icebergs USAGE EXAMPLESThey were all almost entirely buried, with only the tops visible, like stone icebergs. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) These were, the report said, “merely the tip of the iceberg.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) THE Arctic, and its images of icebergs and the Inuit people, are in trouble. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper berg growler a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping floater an object that floats or is capable of floating ice massa large mass of ice n lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head iceberg is still the most popular lettuce Syn|Hyper crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce lettuce leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa |
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