口語課堂第52期:猶如擲了一顆炸彈;九牛一毛

drop a,the,his,shell:猶如擲了一顆炸彈,突如其來地宣佈使人震驚且通常令人不快的事

She dropped a bombshell at the meeting and announced that she was leaving.
她在會上宣佈了令人吃驚的消息,說她將要離開.

It was then that he dropped the bombshell--he wasn't planning to come with us.
那時他突然宣佈一個令人不快的消息,他不準備跟我們一起去了.

a drop in the bucket/ocean:an amount of something that is too small or unimportant to make any real difference to a situation 滄海一粟;九牛一毛

$10 million is only a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed to help these people effectively.
要有效地幫助這些人,1000萬美元只是九牛一毛而已.

Grandfather dropped a bombshell last night when he told the family he is marrying a woman 40 years younger than he is.

祖父昨晚上對家裏的人說,他要和一個比他年輕四十歲的女子結婚,這可真叫大家吃了一驚.

In March 1968 President Lyndon Johnson dropped one of the biggest bombshells ever dropped in American politics when he announced that he would not run for re-election because of the Vietnam War.

1968年3月美國總統約翰遜宣佈,因爲越南戰爭,他決定不競選連任.這可是美國政治史上最令人震驚的消息之一了.

A drop in the bucket" is a something that is not important because it is very small. Example: "I'm sorry I scratched your car." Reply: "Don't worry about it. It's justa drop in the bucket. That car has more scratches on it than I can count." There are so many "drops" in a "bucket" of water that we could not count them all, so any one drop is really not that important. Example: "When I think how many people there are in the world, I realize that my own problems are just a drop in the bucket." "A drop" is very small amount when compared with all there is "in the bucket." "A drop in the bucket" is not important because it is a tiny amount when compared to the larger whole. Example: "I'd like to do something to change the world, but whatever I do seems likea drop in the bucket."

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I'd like to do something to change the world, but whatever I do seems like a drop in the bucket.

我想做一些事情來改變世界,但是不管做什麼都覺得太渺小了.

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.

It would be a drop in the ocean compared to the amount we required.

比起我們的需要量來說,這只不過是滄海一粟罷了.