iceberg

• n. [地理] 冰山；顯露部分

ice,冰，berg,山，城堡。

iceberg (n.)

1774, partial loan-translation of Dutch ijsberg, literally "ice mountain," from ijs "ice" (see ice (n.)) + berg "mountain" (see barrow (n.2)). An earlier term was sea-hill (1690s). Phrase tip of the iceberg, in a figurative sense, first recorded 1962. Iceberg lettuce attested from 1893.

1. The above complaints are, I suspect, just the tip of the iceberg.

我想，以上的抱怨隻是冰山一角。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The Titanic met her fate by crashing into a huge iceberg.

泰坦尼克號客輪因撞上一個大冰山而沉沒.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

然而,這僅僅是一種表麵現象.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The ship hit an iceberg and went under.

船撞上一座冰山而沉沒了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The glacier calved a large iceberg.

冰河崩解而形成一個大冰山.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》