The amounts of money involved pale into insignificance when compared with the sums spent each year on research.
涉及的金额与每年花在研究上的费用相比就是沧海一粟。
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pale into insignificance• This can also happen if a pain is very severe and strong such that it makes all the other symptomspale into insignificance.• Such faultspale into insignificance against performances of such magnitude as these.• But all of this pales into insignificance compared with one majoradvantage.• There are still some problems, but they pale into insignificance when compared to the difficulties facing Russia.• Our difficulties pale into insignificance when compared to the problems of the homeless.• However, definitional factorspale into insignificance when compared with recent changes in householdsize.