日用品英语趣说之Bucket 水桶

Bucket 水桶 Bucket 水桶 We drop a bucket into a well, in order to draw water. If the well is empty, our effort is in vain. So we can compare making a futile effort to dropping a bucket into an empty well. some people often try without result to do what they are are not capable of. In other words, they often drop a bucket into an empty well. Sometimes it rains very hard. By using the word “bucket”，We can express the idea of raining hard in three ways： “The rain was coming down in buckets. ” “The rain was really bucket ing down.” “ It was raining buckets.” 我们投水桶进水里取水。如果井里是空的，我们的气力就白费了。因此我们可以把徒劳无功比作是空井打水。有些人常常劳而无功地去试做自己没有能力去做的事情。换句话说他们是往空井里投桶取水。 有时雨下的很大，用bucket一词，我们可以有三种形式表达下大雨的意思：下倾盆大雨，真是倾盆大雨，大雨倾盆。