所谓抽丝剥茧,顾名思义:丝得一根一根地抽,茧得一层一层地剥。形容分析事物极为细致,而且一步一步很有层次。 Peel back the onion: Peeling the onion means to go beyond the outside appearances when judging something or someone. People have a great many facets to their personalities that will not always be readily seen. To observe these traits requires that you observe more than just what is on the surface. You need to peel the onion so to speak. The term peel back the onion is a principle of psychology, that can be related to understanding customer experience. Just as an onion has many layers so do customers. Effective sales people are able to peel back the onion to get to the root cause of what a customer really feels and thinks about your product or service. It is an idiom that means investigating a matter more deeply, usually step by step, each step leading to a new discovery. It is also a metaphor and here is my definition relating the two: an idiom is a metaphor with a fan base.