| 英语单词 | iceberg |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['aɪsbɜːɡ] 美 ['aɪsbɜːrɡ] |
| 中文释义 | n.冰山;冷若冰霜的人;(事物全貌的)一小部分;表面部分;显露部分;端倪初露的事物 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Most of the iceberg is under the water. (2) The ship was holed by an iceberg. (3) Four days after the Titanic set out, a very big iceberg floated towards her. (4) He is an iceberg, very difficult to approach. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 冰山的大部分在水面以下。 (2) 冰山把那船撞出了窟窿。 (3) 泰坦尼克号出发四天以后,一座巨大的冰山向它漂来。 (4) 他是个冷淡而高傲的人,很难相处。 |
| vocabulary简明 | 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. |
| vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]冰山 the tip of the iceberg An iceberg is a large tall mass of ice floating in the sea. →see: tip ; |
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