PARTto deal with only a very small part of a subject or problem 仅触及问题的表面
scratch the surface of
I think we have only scratched the surface of this problem.
我认为我们仅仅触及了这个问题的表面。
Examples from the Corpus
scratch the surface• A lot of titles for this year you may think, but I've only scratched the surface.• The above four cases only scratch the surface.• Mr Burrowsaddedcultivatortines to scratch the surface and provide an adequate tilth for the rapeseed.• The end of the upperbranchesscratched the surface like phonographneedles.• But Mr Smith has merely scratched the surface of Labour's electionpromises.• But after a summer in Trinidad, he realized he had only scratched the surface of the eclectic and complexbelief system.• So far, we have only scratched the surface of the information available on this topic.• All too soon it was over and we left feeling we had just scratched the surface of this fascinatingRepublic.• So far, research into psychoneuroimmunology has done no more than scratch the surface of this potentially important topic.