英語(yǔ)習(xí)語(yǔ)諺語(yǔ)成語(yǔ)用法精粹 宗教神話類(lèi)3-3 a drop in the bucket

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【字面理解】水桶中的一滴水

【英文解析】a very small proportion of the whole

【中文解析】滄海一粟;九牛一毛

【典型例句】① The amount being spent on scientific research is a drop in the bucket.花在科學(xué)研究上的費(fèi)用是微不足道的。

② It would be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount we required.比起我們的需求量來(lái)說(shuō)，這只不過(guò)是滄 海一粟罷了。

【注釋】此句源自《圣經(jīng)以賽亞書(shū)》第40章第15節(jié)看哪，萬(wàn)民都像水桶中的一滴，又算如天平上的微塵。” (Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales. Isaiah 40:15)變體：a drop in the ocean。