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词汇 needle-in-a-haystack
释义

a needle in a haystack


idiom
something that is impossible or extremely difficult to find, especially because the area you have to search is too large: 不可能(或极难)找到的东西;大海里的针
Finding the piece of paper I need in this huge pile of documents is like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack要在这一大堆文件里找到我需要的那一张纸就像是(企图)大海捞针一样。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Searching
-seeking
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
body search
bounty hunter
comb
hunt someone/something down
hunter
hunting ground
keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom
leave no stone unturnedidiom
lookout
needle
scout
scrounge around
search
seek someone/something out
seeker
troll

Examples of a needle in a haystack


a needle in a haystack
Without prior knowledge of changes in specific hormone or hormone receptor levels, however, a candidate gene approach resembles an attempt to find aneedleinahaystack.
It was a bigger problem than finding aneedleinahaystack.
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The latter can become aneedleinahaystack.
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It is like looking for aneedleinahaystack.
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I know that that can be rather like looking for aneedleinahaystack.
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Trying to use such records to trace stolen goods will be like trying to find aneedleinahaystack.
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Any form of static check unrelated to good intelligence is like looking for aneedleinahaystack.
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Tracking down cyber-crooks is like looking for aneedleinahaystack.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is like hunting for aneedleinahaystack.
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The police have to look for aneedleinahaystack.
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However, they have been enveloped by so many words that the point of the probe has been lost as effectively as aneedleinahaystack.
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The odds of recovering them in the landfill are said to be greater than aneedleinahaystack.
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It was like finding aneedleinahaystack.
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This is most common with myths involving building an object that can accomplish a goal (for example, rapidly cooling a beer, or finding aneedleinahaystack).
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