- 看过 drop in the bucket 的人也看了 :
- bit
- pittance
- small change
- small potatoes
- disappointment
- lick and a promise
- speck
- too little too late
- trifle
drop in the bucket 的定义
- A very small quantity, especially one that is too small. For example, These contributions are just a drop in the bucket; the new church wing will cost thousands more. John Wycliffe's followers used this seemingly modern phrase in their translation of the Bible, and it also appears in the 1611 King James version: “Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.”
drop in the bucket 近义词
small amount
更多drop in the bucket例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- At a quarter past seven he took his leave and we let drop our anchor where we were, off Cape Tekke.
- Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
- Now and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.