These collect rainwater. But the device is designed to collect water even when there is no rain.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

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。

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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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"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

But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.

但如果我加入之前，他们要往我头上泼牛粪,要我穿着女内裤在雨中站一个月,他们还朝我扔石头,事后我就会想,”为了加入这个兄弟会我吃了不少苦头“

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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.2010.03.27

But know I have to come to take the rain babies away with me."

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Friday was the folk night but the playing was plagued by rain and delays.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

But it can also increase the risk of soil erosion by rain or wind.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

But now rain,sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

He wanted to destroy it. But heavy rain held up Jackson's troops.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

But we do not want it to rain too hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

But never such adventures as the rain babies.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The clouds cleared, but more rain was expected.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

A few days without rain have allowed flood waters to begin to recede, but weather forecasters predict more monsoon rains in the days to come.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

"We needed rain yesterday,right,". "We needed rain most probably a fortnight ago for our crops to realize their full potential but most probably been 30 percent of our yield potential gone and every day it doesn't rain that will fall quite dramatically from there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03