Main Topic: tip of the iceberg

本日主題: 冰山一角(用來提醒別人，針對一件事情，需要注意其他不容易看到的地方，通常那才是事情的癥結點所在) 

"Tip of the iceberg" means a part of something which is easily seen but there are many more parts hidden, one of which could be the real issue or the most influential one. We usually use "tip of the iceberg" to tell people do not be convinced easily by a superficial story. Instead, we should go further to confirm. 

"Tip of the iceberg" 的意思是指容易看見的一部分但是有更多的部分是你還沒有看到的，可能其中一個你沒有觀察到的才是正的問題點或是最有影響力的部分。我們通常使用"tip of the iceberg"告訴別人別被表面的事物給迷惑住。我們應該要進入更深的一層去探究，別只被表面、容易被看見的部分給侷限住、說服。

To avoid bare memorization in Chinese, we are going to use informative pictures as a hammer. Speaking to iceberg, you must be very familiar because of the classic movie "Titanic". The Titanic struck the iceberg and finally its wrecks sank to the deep ocean. Iceberg means ice mountain, please refer to picture.1. Tip means the thin pointed end of something, for example fingertip, nose tip, etc. Please refer to picture.2. So far I believe the image of the tip of the iceberg must rise in your imagination system, please refer to picture.3

為了讓各位讀者遠離中文死背，我們現在要利用圖解方式讓大家了解其意思後，自然而然就塞入腦袋裡囉。說到iceberg，你一定非常熟悉，因為鐵達尼號就是撞到冰山後，最後其殘骸都沉入深海中。iceberg就是冰山的意思請參考圖.1。Tip通常是指尖端，例如，指尖、鼻尖等等。請參考圖.2。到目前為止我相信針對 tip of the iceberg應該都有畫面浮現在各位腦海中了吧,請參考圖.3

Picture.1, iceberg

Picture.2, tip

Picture.3, tip of the iceberg 

Situations you can use "tip of the iceberg"

1. Our manager pointed out the tip of the iceberg of the project’s problems that shows he has not really been into the project.

1. 我們的主管對於這個專案點出的問題都只是tip of the iceberg，他從來沒有真正了解過整個專案。

2. Judging people or things by the first look is humans’ instinct, so we really need to be aware of not being convinced by the tip of the iceberg. 

2 用第一眼去評斷別人或是事務是人的天性，所以我們需要更加警覺，不要用tip of the iceberg的觀察就對別人下定論。

3. Being easily convinced by the tip of the iceberg can be fatal to a company.

3. 容易被tip of the iceberg給說服，對於一間公司來說，是非常致命的。

No Chinese Interference-tip of the iceberg