【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.花在科學研究上的費用是微不足道的。
② It would be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount we required.比起我們的需求量來說,這只不過是滄 海一粟罷了。
【注釋】此句源自《圣經以賽亞書》第40章第15節(jié)看哪,萬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。