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咖啡因确实对哮喘有疗效，但只是杯水车薪。Caffeine's benefits for asthma are real but minimal.

王志们的援手固然重要，但这仅是杯水车薪。But while such support as Wang Zhi’s is vital, it is a drop in the ocean.

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那只是杯水车薪，我需要一大笔钱来清偿债务。That's just a drop in the bucket . I need too much to get back on my feet.

对于那些没钱买服务的人，虽然有政府和慈善部门的援助，但效果只是杯水车薪。Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay.

官员们目前给予光风能的投资比起实际需求来只是杯水车薪。Present investments by the feds in wind and solar are trivial compared to the needs.

但部份人士认为,与问题的规模相较,经费即使已增加,也仅属杯水车薪.Given the monumental scale of the problem, some see even that increase as a pittance.

可是，尽管联邦政府提供了一些资助，但相对于资金缺口来说也是杯水车薪。But while some aid has been provided, it has made up only a fraction of the shortfall.

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这种杯水车薪的事是没有什么好处的。这有些像人一根一根地整理头发。The policy is helpless, like using a cup of water to put out a fire on a cart of firewood.

比起灾区的损失，我们的支援不过杯水车薪。Considering the losses in the disaster area, our support was an utterly inadequate measure.

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

麦克失业后，我接济他一些钱，但那只不过是杯水车薪罢了。I gave Mike some money to help him after he lost his job, but it was just a drop in the bucket.

在2008年金融危机以后，IMF的借贷能力约扩大三倍左右，但在应对目前新一轮的债务危机时却显得杯水车薪。After the 2008 financial crisis, I.M.F. member states roughly trebled the institution’s lending capacity.

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这个改变很好，但穿梭于这几英里长的海岸线，感觉就像是杯水车薪，因为就我一人负责。It's a good change, but driving those fewer miles feels like a drop in a bucket because I am just one person.

过了良久，也许是她觉得这样做也杯水车薪便怯怯地出来显得那般羞怯。Passed for ages, perhaps be she feels to be done so also of no help cowardly cowardly ground comes out to appear that kind is bashful.

当前创造的就业机会也只是杯水车薪，还远远无法达到中产阶级的生活水准。The few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living.

“我在赤井小学的救助中心里有一个位子，但在哪里得到的食物只能说是杯水车薪。”高桥君说。"I have a place in a rescue centre in the Aka'i Elementary School, but the food they are giving us is not enough, " Mr Takahashi says.

即使有29个门诊计划中心和32个营养补充计划也只是杯水车薪。Even with 29 outpatient therapeutic programme centres and 32 supplementary feeding programmes, she admits it's only a pinprick in the sea of need.

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但是这些优惠政策对于同时罹患血友病、艾滋病、丙肝等多种疾病的患者而言仍然显得有些杯水车薪。However, all these favorable policies are actually inadequate for those hemophiliacs who also suffer from AIDS, hepatitis C as well as other illnesses.

这点工程虽然有点杯水车薪，但美妙的王室婚礼似乎仍能激发起无数适龄男女对婚姻的渴望了。This works although a little drop in the ocean, but still beautiful royal wedding seems to inspire countless men and women of marriage age had the desire.

政府还设立了基金，资助贫困家庭购买学习用具，每月食物津贴，如果他们参加医疗体检、免疫接种和健康教育培训课程。这些教育津贴并非是杯水车薪的零钱。Families are also given a grant to buy school supplies, and a monthly food subsidy if they get medical check-ups, immunizations and health education lectures.