Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

It's really, in a sense, the physical image is of rain; it's raining, so it's leaking all over it.

这在某种意义上确实是，下雨的一种具体的描述;,因为在下雨，所以天空像是在漏水。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

this time, because of the rain and the traffic, you're going to not be able to be on time to see your brother.

但这次你有一种感觉，因为雨天湿滑与堵车严重，你没法准时去见你的兄弟了。

I'm going to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Radioactive particles travel in the wind and get absorbed into soil with the help of rain and snow.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

More specifically, what I meant was, when you showed the example of Rain Man, are they exceptional .... Right. The question is about so-called autistic savants.

我想说的是,具体而言,比如说雨人这样的,他们都是特例吗,好的,这是个关于孤独症学者的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

About fifteen centimeters of wet snow has as much water as two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Just this watery mass again. So it's creation undoing itself in some of the descriptions, as opposed to just heavy rain.

又变成了一个大水球,这里是自我毁灭，而不是毁于倾盆大雨。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

What's important in My Fair Lady is to - repeat the repetitiousness of verse-- the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain -in terms of the tautology of the plot.

重要的是窈窕淑女中,这种韵律的加强-,“西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“,韵律的反复加强了情节。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Many centuries of rain caused huge rivers to move violently through this area.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

More than thirty centimeters of rain fell on May first and second.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

That is another question we want to ask And I think about the five days of pure rain, where people were soggy at the first night and it only got worse.

这也是我们想要问的另一个问题,以及“我们怎么成长“，我想到了，And，how，do，we，grow…,连续五天瓢泼大雨的一次,人们在第一天晚上都湿透了，状况越来越糟。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The race was stopped early because of rain.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

But I guess we can't, because of the rain.

现在看来，因为下雨的关系恐怕没法成行了。

I think 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowded city's planners were stunned at the amount of rain that poured down in a short time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We've been throughevery kind of rain there is...

VOA: standard.other

Okay, rain seems to be there for different amounts of time, doesn't it?

关于大雨持续的时间不同，是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"I'm Mother Moonshower on the night of the last full moon I gave my rain babies into your care.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath;

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Then the woman wrapped the rain babies in pieces of cloth and laid them to sleep in a drawer.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

As he handed the basket to his wife, a sudden rush of cool rain put out the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"It contributes to smog,acid rain, loss of biodiversity, dead zones along the coast, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

"He is just as nice and pleasant as ever, but he still does not know enough to come in, out of the rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.03