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iceberg

B2 noun

iceberg /ˈaɪsbɝɡ/ nghĩa là núi băng trôi, băng sơn

Các nghĩa

  1. núi băng trôi · băng sơn

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

    The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.

  2. người lạnh lùng, xa cách

    An aloof person.

    us · slang

  3. tai họa ngầm, thảm họa sắp xảy ra

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

    figuratively

    He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.

  4. vấn đề phức tạp, rắc rối hơn vẻ bề ngoài

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

    internet · figuratively · slang

    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.

  5. danh sách, đồ họa liệt kê các khía cạnh phức tạp

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

    internet · broadly · figuratively · slang

    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.

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