a grain of sand

基本解釋

“Sometimes more than a thousand, ” he wrote, “in anamount of material the size of a grain of sand.”
他寫道，“有時(shí)一粒沙子大小的樣本中就有超過(guò)一千的微生物?！?/li>
By the time a grain of sand washes up on a beach in Florida, it has been battered by waves for a long time.
當(dāng)一粒沙子被沖刷到福羅里達(dá)州的沙灘上的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)被海浪沖刷了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間。
On my last holiday in the Bahamas, as I walked along the beach feeling the gentle waves wash over my feet, I felt part of the universe, even if only a minuscule one, like a grain of sand on the beach.
在巴哈馬最后一次度假的時(shí)候，當(dāng)我沿著海灘散步的時(shí)候，溫柔的海水拂過(guò)我的腳時(shí)，我感覺(jué)到我與宇宙融為了一體。盡管只是如海灘上的一粒沙子那樣渺小的一部分。

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.
一個(gè)你可以依靠的支點(diǎn)：,一個(gè)不同尋常的想法，一個(gè)思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不過(guò)我認(rèn)為任何比喻都不夠貼切。
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