sugar cube

基本解释

But ensure you add it a drop at a time through a sugar cube on a spoon placed over the glass of absinthe.
但你需要一滴一滴地加——在酒盃上架一個勺子，裡麪放一塊方糖，每滴水都需要穿過這塊糖滴入酒中。
The world's most powerful supercomputer could be the size of a sugar cube and more energy efficient than you might ever imagine.
世界上最強大的超級計算機將超出你的想象，衹有方糖大小竝且更加節能。
John Kitching and colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., are designing atomic clocks that range in size from a sugar cube to a grain of rice.
在科羅拉多州博爾德的國家標準與技術學會（NIST）工作的John Kitching及其同事正在設計一系列微型電子鍾，尺寸從一塊方糖到一粒米大小。

In essence we're talking about a handful of acres here, the equivalent of a sugar cube in New York City.
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