scratch the surface of

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to talk about climate change, renewable energy or staycations is merely to scratch the surface of something much deeper.
我們談論著氣候變化，可再生能源和宅度假，而這衹抓住了深層信息表麪上的一些皮毛。
The features and methods discussed in this article really only scratch the surface of what you can accomplish with an ADC.
這篇文章中對於特性和方法的討論僅僅是淺嘗輒止，旨在讓您了解可以利用 ADC 實現哪些目標。
"While annotations are brilliant, they only scratch the surface of the metadata that needs to be supported," he said.
“雖然注釋極爲出色，但它們僅是需要支持的元數據最表麪的一層”，他說。

So, they developed this bifurcated tool, which would be appl--you'd put the stuff on the surface of the tool and then you'd scratch the skin in a certain way so that you could produce sort of a reproducible introduction of the vaccine into the skin.
所以他們發明了一種分爲兩叉的工具,把疫苗抹在這種工具表麪上,然後以某種方式在皮膚上刮,這樣就能將疫苗,重複不斷地引入到皮下
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