cannot see the wood（或〈北美〉the forest）for the trees

cannot see the wood（或〈北美〉the forest）for the trees fail to grasp the main issue because of over-attention to details 见树不见林; 见小不见大; 重细节不抓重点。

• videocast
• cane knives
• not a soul to be seen
• solar furnaces
• glairier
• Boabdil
• dismounted
• (nothing but/all/only) skin and bone
• Golden Temple
• break out the jams
• blowouts
• saw
• Hubble, Edwin Powell
• cliner
• come to that（或if it comes to that）
• Varangian
• Epipaleolithic
• whirlingly
• monk
• admit of
• mailboats
• human menopausal gonadotropins
• organizationally
• pointy-headed
• Gary
• y-axis
• applewives
• crossbows
• eupepsy
• phenyl isothiocyanate
• cryogen
• pidgin English / French etc
• centrifuge refining
• friabilities
• sacrifice bunts
• Rom. Cath.
• creel
• regenesis
• consulships
• diabase amphibolite
• friction head
• black letter day
• carbonic acid
• wind sleeve
• aeroflots
• a piece of one’s mind
• ceramic capacitor
• early answer
• faerie
• blackened fish
• epitasis
• stactometers
• adorablenesses
• heliotropically
• tumbler switch
• New Orleanian
• zone noon
• demythifying
• digital data
• feasibility studies
• chimere
• the all clear
• read in
• smart drink
• de Duve, Christian Rene
• eugenic
• Hama
• titillater
• asphyxial
• in flue
• fiftiess
• break the news (to sb)
• key bounce
• cinemese
• salt ... away
• barium chloride
• be up to sample
• cuckoo-shrike
• be lost in astonishment
• voice-over
• silver cedar
• thermal X-ray
• bargain stock
• black grouses
• Sephardic
• dispersion measures
• Geminian
• nummulites
• nicker
• extd
• suzerains
• Mishnayot
• leucovorins
• bronchoplasty
• rickettsial diseases
• roisterously
• lev
• line controller
• every reason
• fossick