iceberg

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n. 冰山, 冷冰冰的人

发音

UK /ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/
AU
US /ˈaɪsbɝɡ/

词形变化

icebergs 复数 icebergs

教材释义与例句

名词

冰山；显露部分

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The seaward end of a glacier.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf

    冰山

    The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.

  3. 3.

    An aloof person.

    美国 俚语
  4. 4.

    An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.

    比喻 俚语

    Near-synonym: rabbit hole

    Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.

    There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.

  6. 6.

    A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.

    A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness.

    比喻 俚语 引申义

    Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.

    Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

berg iceberg lettuce

上位词 2

lettuce floater

下位词 1

growler

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词源

Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.

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