她20美元的捐款只是九牛一毛，因为他们需要为这个项目筹集几千美元。
Her 20-dollar donation is a drop in the bucket because they need to raise thousands of dollars for this project.
这对他们来说，不过九牛一毛。
和我的相比，他的损失只是九牛一毛。
只不过是九牛一毛而已。
体育比赛其实问题百出，服药不过九牛一毛。
而且这不过是去年整个互联网上流量的九牛一毛罢了。
And that's only a tiny slice of the bits that flew around the Internet last year.
对这几家银行来说，次级债损失有些九牛一毛的味道了。
To them, that makes the subprime losses look more like an inconvenience than a calamity.
对一位百万富翁来说，买一辆豪华车的花费只是九牛一毛。
For a millionaire the cost of a luxury car is a drop in the bucket.
他认为，与购买整片土地相比，这些钱对基金会来说是九牛一毛。
This would be far less costly for the foundation, he argues, than buying the land outright.
盖特比评述，与航行所产生的热气排放量相比，这点降温效果只是“九牛一毛”。
Gatebe describes the cooling effect as "a drop in the ocean" compared with the amount of warming shipping emissions cause.
同几年前的九牛一毛相比，现如今，基金经理将高达5%的现金都投入商品期货市场。
Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.
看来我要存一辈子才能买辆新车，我已经存了两个月的奖金了，还只是九牛一毛而已。
I've been saving my allowance for two months, but it's still only a drop in the bucket, and it'll take me forever to save enough money for a new car.
我们想募集一些资金来帮助无家可归的人们，但是这笔钱不够多。只不过是九牛一毛而已。
We passed the hat to collect some money for the homeless people, but it's not enough. It is just a drop in the bucket.
但是，这样的小幅度增长并不会会影响经济走势，双十一的销量只是消费的九牛一毛而已。
Still, such small improvements will not suffice to anchor the economy and the Nov 11 sales boom is but a dro in the bucket of required spending.
如此大的绿化面积已相当可观，然而这跟整个芝加哥绿色屋顶的总面积相比只不过九牛一毛。
Large as it is, City Hall's roof accounts for a small proportion of Chicago's total green-roof space.
虽然扑热息痛可以说是强生的公众形象，但比起强生每年620亿美元的销售额来讲不过是九牛一毛。
While the Tylenol brand is closely connected with its public image, it amounts to a tiny fraction of nearly $62 billion in annual sales.
即使是算上那之后的增长，与美国为数250万的百万富翁相比，中国的百万富翁人数仍只是九牛一毛。
Even with the growth since then, China's millionaires are still a fraction of the more than 2.5 millionaires in the U.S..
即使是算上那之后的增长，与美国为数250万的百万富翁相比，中国的百万富翁人数仍只是九牛一毛。
Even with the growth since then, China's millionaires are still a fraction of the more than 2.5 millionaires in the U. s.
此外，因为该产业只能聚集150万桶闲置抽泵的产能，与全世界每天的消耗桶量8400万桶相比，是九牛一毛。
Furthermore, the industry can muster only about 1.5m barrels a day of spare pumping capacity-a tiny fraction of the 84m-odd barrels the world consumes daily.
即使在六亿五千万可调利率次优贷款中有五分之一变成不良贷款，对于四十万亿美元的债务市场来说，不过是九牛一毛。
Even if a fifth of the $650 billion of adjustable-rate subprime loans went bad, that would be a blip in the $40 trillion market for debt.
此外，商业公司为获取、分享和处理数据花费了大量的资金；他们只需花费其中九牛一毛的资金便能够提供更好的个人控制。
Besides, firms are already spending a great deal on collecting, sharing and processing the data; they could divert a sliver of that money to provide greater individual control.
因为葡萄糖是神经元活动的能量来源，所以大脑中的短暂的葡萄糖低浓度水平会向胃发出信号，让人赶快往嘴里塞食物，纵然能量其实只消耗了九牛一毛。
And because glucose fuels the neurons, a transitory low level in the brain may signal the stomach to get the hands to fill up the mouth, even though the energy actually spent has gone up just a hair.
另一幅没有入围的佳作，这幅示意图展示了76425个已知物种的样本，科学家们估计地球上现存的生命形式有500万到1亿种，图片中标注的不过是九牛一毛。
Another of our non-winning favorites, this map shows a sample of 76,425 recognized species — just a fraction of the 5 to 100 million estimated life forms in existence.
另一幅没有入围的佳作，这幅示意图展示了76425个已知物种的样本，科学家们估计地球上现存的生命形式有500万到1亿种，图片中标注的不过是九牛一毛。
Another of our non-winning favorites, this map shows a sample of 76,425 recognized species — just a fraction of the 5 to 100 million estimated life forms in existence.
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