英语词汇drop in the bucket的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	drop in the bucket
词源	drop in the bucket. Another biblical phrase, meaning very little compared with the whole. It is from Isa. 40:15: “Behold, the nations are as a drop in the bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.”
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