汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 冰山一角
冰山一角
tip of the iceberg
比喻事物已经显露出来的一小部分:媒体揭露出的问题只是~,实际情况要严重得多。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

当前的裁员浪潮很可能只是冰山一角

Most likely, current job losses are only the tip of an ugly iceberg.

而用特异功能使山羊毙命仅仅是冰山一角而已。

And that killing goats with psychic powers was just the tip of the iceberg.

毫无疑问,三鹿毒奶事件只是冰山一角

Sanlu, no doubt, is just the tip of the iceberg.

对于棘龙来说,饮食只是进化的冰山一角

As for spinosaurus, diet was just the tip of the evolutionary iceberg.

我怀疑那些已经报出的造假丑闻只是冰山一角

My suspicion is that the cases of fraud that are exposed are just the tip of the iceberg.

但是小石头城仅仅是艾森豪·威尔公民权利政策的冰山一角

But Little Rock was just the tip of the civil rights iceberg for Eisenhower.

“我们对长臂猿叫声的理解还只是冰山一角,”她说道。

"We're just scratching the surface of the information that they're communicating in gibbon calls," she said.

除非我们大家都更加小心,否则迄今为止已经死去的人数将只是冰山一角

Unless we're all a lot more careful, the people who have died so far will be just the tip of the iceberg.

人们现在看到的只是问题的冰山一角,由于全球变暖,有很多灾害将会发生。

The problems that people see now are just the tip of the iceberg. There are numerous disasters going to happen because of global warming.

他说:“从某种意义上来说,那只鞋还只是冰山一角。”(他大概说的是“翼尖”)。

"The shoe," he said, "is in a sense just the tip of the iceberg." (he probably meant to say wingtip.)