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

VOA: special.2010.09.28

I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought.

我未曾到过火热的城门,也未曾在暖雨中作战,更未曾在没膝的盐沼里挥舞弯刀，挨着飞蝇的叮咬，苦战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

So, Rain Man, the character played by Dustin Hoffman, had extraordinary mathematical abilities.

达斯丁·霍夫曼所扮演的雨人这个角色,有着超凡的数学能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

He heaps up the waters with a blast of wind, like a storm at sea, Baal and this is reminiscent of the Canaanite storm god Baal, as you see on your handout. Baal is said to ride on the clouds, he's a storm god, and he's accompanied by wind and rain.

他用狂风掀起巨浪，就像海上的风暴，难免让人想起迦南传说中的暴风之神，就像你们在讲义上看到的一样，Baal腾云驾雾，是暴风之神，带来风和雨。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In Senegal,the new U.N.assessment says more than 260,000 people are affected by weeks of heavy rain, most living in poor neighborhoods built on lowlands outside the capital,Dakar.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08