1·Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.
高昂的医疗费用、急诊室里漫长的等待，以及找不到初级护理医师，这些都只是患者每天面临的问题的冰山一角。
2·To make an investigation one, should go into matters deeply, not just scratch the surface.
做调查工作不能蜻蜓点水， 要深入实际。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
3·The examples above merely scratch the surface on timeouts, which shows how ubiquitous timeouts are in any solution.
上述示例仅仅是触及了超时的表层，展示了所有解决方案中普遍存在的超时。
4·He says archaeologists could dig here for another 50 years and barely scratch the surface.
她说考古学家就算能再花50年去进行挖掘，也只是刚刚能挖出这个遗迹的表面而已。
5·The surface area ... which you can scratch or break has basically doubled.
基本上，外壳部分留下刮痕或者破裂的可能性增加了一倍。
6·To talk about climate change, renewable energy or staycations is merely to scratch the surface of something much deeper.
我们谈论着气候变化，可再生能源和宅度假，而这只抓住了深层信息表面上的一些皮毛。
7·We don't have much yet because we've just started to scratch the surface.
在我们今天要学的最后一个习惯用语里， scratch回到了它的原意。 就是“刨括表面”。
8·The watch features a removable compass that, when used with the scratch-resistant mirror and the compass’s reflective surface, can give any Boy Scout the tools to find his way home.
这款手表的特色在于装了个可移动的指南针，使用手表防刮的镜面和指南针的反射表面能够帮任何一个童子军找到回家的路。
9·"While annotations are brilliant, they only scratch the surface of the metadata that needs to be supported," he said.
“虽然注释极为出色，但它们仅是需要支持的元数据最表面的一层”，他说。
10·These problems just scratch the surface.
这些问题只是涉及到表面。