connect the dots 連連看,把分開的資訊串起來 1) U.S. President Barak Obama said, "The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack, but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots, which would have placed the suspect on the no-fly list.” 美國總統歐巴馬說美國政府其實有足夠情報,能夠阻止耶誕節那次幾乎成功的攻擊事件,但是整個情報界卻沒有把那些資訊串起來,沒有讓那名嫌犯登上不准飛行的名單. 2) Nine years after 9/11, we still don’t connect the dots.九一一恐怖攻擊已經九年了,我們卻仍然沒有把情報串起來.