bucket
noun /ˈbʌkɪt/
/ˈbʌkɪt/
Idioms - enlarge image[countable] an open container with a handle, used for carrying or holding liquids, sand, etc.
（有提梁的）桶 - a plastic bucket
塑料桶 - (British English) They were playing on the beach with their buckets and spades.
他们带着桶和铲子在沙滩上玩。
Topics Houses and homesc1- The children ran down to the beach with their buckets and spades.
孩子们带着桶和铲跑向海滩。 - The cleaner put down his mop and bucket and sat down.
清洁工放下拖把和桶，坐了下来。 - The sand had spilt from the fire bucket.
沙子从消防桶里泼洒出来。 - a slop bucket full of scraps of food
盛满残羹剩饭的泔水桶
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- full
- galvanized
- …
- fill
- carry
- dump
- …
- be full of something
- contain something
- hold something
- …
- in a/the bucket
- bucket of
- a bucket and spade
- mop and bucket
- a plastic bucket
- [countable] a large container that is part of a crane or digger and is used for lifting things
吊桶；水斗；（挖掘机的）铲斗 - (also bucketful[countable] the amount contained in a bucket/ˈbʌkɪtfʊl//ˈbʌkɪtfʊl/)
一桶（的量） - two buckets/bucketfuls of water
两桶水 - by the bucket/bucketful They used to drink tea by the bucketful (= in large quantities).
他们过去常常大量喝茶。
- She poured the bucket of dirty water down the drain.
她把那桶脏水倒到下水道里。 - a bucket of oats for the horses
一桶给马吃的燕麦 - big buckets of popcorn and Coke
大桶的爆米花和可口可乐
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- full
- galvanized
- …
- fill
- carry
- dump
- …
- be full of something
- contain something
- hold something
- …
- in a/the bucket
- bucket of
- a bucket and spade
- mop and bucket
- two buckets/bucketfuls of water
- buckets[plural] (informal) a large amount
大量 - To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence.
要想在演艺界干出名堂，就得有十足的信心。 - We wept buckets.
我们泪如泉涌。 - He was sweating buckets by the end of the race.
跑到终点时他汗流浃背。 - The rain was coming down in buckets (= it was raining very heavily).
下着瓢泼大雨。
- To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence.
词源Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old English būc ‘belly, pitcher’.
Idioms
a drop in the bucket (North American English)
(British English a drop in the ocean)
- an amount of something that is too small or unimportant to make any real difference to a situation
沧海一粟；九牛一毛 - The amount of money raised was a drop in the bucket compared to what we needed.
与我们所需要的相比，筹集的资金只是沧海一粟。
- The amount of money raised was a drop in the bucket compared to what we needed.
kick the bucket
- (informal or humorous) to die
死；翘辫子；蹬腿儿