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。

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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。

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Well, you wake up in the morning and it is raining and being the conscientious and reliable young people that I know you to be, you probably forget to do it.

嗯，你早上醒来，并且在下雨,作为一个认真的，可信赖的年轻人,我知道你会这样做，你可能忘记了做。

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It is the only form of knowledge free from the fallacy of unmediated expression--in other words, free from the fallacy that when I say "It is raining," I mean I'm a meteorologist and I mean it is raining.

它是唯一能免于未适当表达的谬误的一种知识形式,换句话说，免于一种谬误，比如，当我说“天在下雨“时“,我的意思是，我是一个气象学家，并且我的意思是天在下雨。

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But he said you remember the week that rained?

他却问我，你记得那个下雨的周末吗？

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What could be more prosaic than "It is raining?" All of a sudden you notice that string of "i's." You notice all kinds of other things about it.

最基本的意思就是“在下雨“，但是你注意到,“i’s“这个词，你注意到它的相关意义。

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And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

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