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

Only at their next officially scheduled meeting did they come up with a meagre quota increase.

直到他们下一次的官方会议他们才做出了增加配额的决定,但也是杯水车薪.

The excellence initiative is a mere drop in the bucket.

“优异创新”奖的收入对各大学来说,只是杯水车薪.

Still, that is a fraction of the need.

然而, 这仅仅是杯水车薪.

Only at their next officially scheduled meeting did they come up with a meager quota increase.

直到他们下一次的官方会议他们才作出了增加配额的决定,但也是杯水车薪.

The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface.

饥荒十分严重, 援助也只是杯水车薪.

This competition attains 1 point, to the new Sichuan foot without doubt futile attempt.

本场比赛拿到1分, 对新川足来说无疑杯水车薪.

He hardly put a foot wrong in defence and was fine in attack.

他防守的时候几乎滴水不漏，进攻也很出色。

The lad has a large comceit of himself.

你的解释滴水不漏.

Yet this world is not so closed as It'seems.

然而,这个看似封闭的世界并不是滴水不漏的.

The newly-designed glue is waterproof and can Bear endless heavy rain.

新型防水胶经得起连续的大雨冲刷,滴水不漏.

Little strokes fall great oaks.

绳锯木断,水滴石穿.

We should remember a worthy proverb Constant dropping of water wears away a stone.

我们应记住一条有价值的谚语“水滴石穿”.

Constant dripping wears away a stone.

水滴石穿,绳锯木断.

The dropping water and the solid stone -- how utterly it yields at last!

水滴石穿,石头 终究 要彻底地认输!

Our expertise can dliminate theand share the fortune of the entire human beings.

以专业的能力,跨越千山万水,共享人类财富.

He says, I have now thousands of miles to travel!

他说, 我现在有千山万水须行!

Thousands of miles, and then is a far distance.

千山万水, 再不是什么遥远的距离.

Even though we are not apart, you are not in my listent the season.

千山万水, 隔不断我在佳节对你的思念.

Her voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream.

她茑语呖呖,像高山流水.

Here are the Four Seasons Evergreen and Flowing Water, a fairy-tale world as the Huguang clouds.

这里有四季长青的高山流水, 有童话世界般的湖光白云.