If 99% constituted wood of the wooden pail is all long, having only one short piece, so the water in the wooden pail flowing out from the short piece is also a very natural matter.

如果构成木桶的木头99%都是长的，惟独有一块是短的，那么木桶里的水从短木头处流走也是十分自然的事。

youdao

Pour spoonful foul water into a pail of wine, those who get still is a pail of sewage.

如果把一匙污水倒进一桶酒，得到的还是一桶污水。

youdao

It's easy to see the appeal of men's basketball the NBA stars are global celebrities, fans care, TV goes gushy-gushy gaga but as an Olympic moment it's not the pinnacle. (For half of the men's basketball games in London, you needed a pail of cold water over the head at halftime.) With the gold for the U.S. almost assured failure is really the only surprise the intrigue becomes about weird secondary issues, like the team-bonding for the U.S. players.

WSJ: Wrestling: What the Games Are All About

We were each given a metal pail and a gigantic ladle for dishing out a hot soup of water, offal and bones.

WSJ: Learning to Dog Sled in Bavaria, Germany