我想問杯水車薪的英文

Is for fingers, and one cup of water goes to saving one car, and write brushwood of the fire, and the metaphor ability is the smallest, and serve nothing; particularly supplement it, and is inextricability by a problem.

an utterly inadequate method in dealing with a severe situation

Futile attempt

應該是 trying to put out a burning cartload of faggots with a cup of water