scratch the surface 的定义
- Investigate or treat something superficially, as in This feed-the-hungry program only scratches the surface of the problem, or Her survey course barely scratches the surface of economic history. This metaphoric term transfers shallow markings made in a stone or other material to a shallow treatment of a subject or issue. [Early 1900s]
scratch the surface 近义词
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- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- “You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
- The more resources and education society becomes equipped with, the fewer stories like yours will surface.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
- But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.
- Some of those halls that Mr. Meadow Mouse mentioned ran right out beneath the surface of the garden.
- It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.