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iceberg ['aisbә:g]

n. 冰山, 冷冰冰的人

iceberg

[ noun ]

a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

<noun.object>

lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head

<noun.food>

iceberg is still the most popular lettuce

Iceberg \Ice"berg`\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan.
iisbierg, Sw. isberg, properly, a mountain of ice. See {Ice},
and {Berg}.]
A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

Note: Icebergs are large detached portions of glaciers, which
in cold regions often project into the sea.

"What we're seeing is probably just the tip of the iceberg," says Jesse Brill, a securities lawyer with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in San Francisco.
But state securities regulators said they think these are only the tip of the iceberg.
Endurance, which recently underwent emergency repairs after an iceberg knocked a hole in its hull, went to the rescue, the ministry said.
However, it "is probably only the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to computer crime, he said.
Around 60 people were reported missing while in the custody of the South African security forces, "but this is just the tip of the iceberg," said an Amnesty spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"FDR had been elected on a pledge to maintain a balanced budget," Kelly said, adding that Roosevelt's campaign charges of mismanagement created the iceberg.
Any shortage was expected to be less severe because Imperial Valley growers planted about 35,000 acres to iceberg lettuce this year, up about 12 percent from 1987.
"Erundina is just the visible tip of the iceberg," says Sao Paulo businessman Ricardo Semler.
An important part of our work is to give advice on contingency planning, and risk identification, assessment and control.' Also of significance are hidden costs - sometimes called 'iceberg' costs - associated with accidents in the workplace.
He said the chances of a direct iceberg hit on the platform are "extremely slim."
An interstate probe of computer hacking has uncovered losses that may reach millions of dollars and could be "just the tip of the iceberg," federal law enforcement officials said Wednedsay.
They recognise that the knowledge expressed in words and numbers represents only the tip of an iceberg.
Coronary bypass surgery, hip replacement and intensive-care units are but the tip of the iceberg.
The iceberg lettuce has ousted local varieties.
A Soviet ocean liner with more than 950 people aboard rammed an iceberg in arctic seas and took on water today, but all passengers were evacuated.
"The exhibitions are just the tip of the iceberg." His opinion on the National Museum building?
The luxury liner went down 74 years ago after striking an iceberg only five days into its maiden voyage.
A salad of iceberg lettuce is smothered in chunky blue-cheese dressing.
"We should not forget that the situation, critical as it is, may be only the tip of the iceberg," he told a news conference organized by the U.N. Disaster and Relief Agency.
An even larger iceberg broke free from the other side of Antarctica in 1986, Rutledge added, but that has since split into pieces, leaving B-9 as the largest floating mass of ice.
International Business Machines Corp.'s announcement last week that it will fall far short of analysts' expectations for third-quarter profit was only the tip of the disappointment iceberg.
There are now 1,800 agreements involving 300 installations, and that cooperation represents "just the tip of a mammoth, cost-effective iceberg," said Kirby.
"That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Until the German government closes this gap, the project for European union will continue to drift towards the iceberg, whatever initiatives Mr Kohl may devise with Mr Mitterrand.
One forecaster, John R. Siegel of the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness, says last summer's brownouts were only "the tip of the iceberg."
I don't want just the tip of the iceberg," said Riegle, calling for a review of all projects awarded contracts through the program during the 1984-1988 period covered by the inspector general's audit.
This is only the visible part of the iceberg."
For life and health insurers and their stockholders, AIDS is like an iceberg: everybody wonders how big it really is and what damage it might do in the future.
This record and the fact that Fish and Wildlife formally recognizes 3,600 species as candidates for listing may mean the case of Riverside County's Stevens kangaroo rat is only the tip of the iceberg for future home buyers.
"Only a fraction of them gets into media," he said. "It's the tip of the iceberg.

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