Joan Baez closed the evening in the rain ."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

and stand hopefully in the sunshine, sometimes in the rain.

会满怀期待地站在烈日里，或者有时在雨中。

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The orchid grows in the rain forests of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

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

Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

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

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

VOA: special.2009.02.28

the natural forces imaged in the ice storm.] Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain.

冰的自然作用作对比],下过一场冬雨，第二天，太阳出来,你准会看到白桦上结满了冰。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But Mister Zundt says reducing air pollution and acid rain will reduce respiratory illnesses for people in the city.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Take, for example, "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."

看，西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.03.29

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

She reached the blanket just in time to see the weasel run off with a tiny rain baby hanging from its mouth.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

He would often stand on the deck of his ship, in the cold rain and fierce winds.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower.

这时外面下起了大雨。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"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

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

Another reason is that a small change in temperature can mean the difference between snow and rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And here in the middle of the page a little ways down: My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock, jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat, a spring rain gift from me.

在这一页中间偏下的地方：,我的小情人穿着黑白条子的棉布裙，带着鲜艳的蓝色帽子，白袜子和亮皮鞋与她脖子上那条优美的,蓝宝石项链有些不协调,这是由于那场春雨我送给她的礼物。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

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

VOA: special.2011.01.11

"The strength of the crowd seemed strongest in the hard rain on Sunday afternoon.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Through the years rain and wind made cracks and openings in it.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Then the old man and woman held the rain babies in the palms of their hands or they rocked them to sleep in a pair of wooden shoes.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The rain babies slept soundly in their drawer.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

she had hair like the midnight sky and she smiled up them with shining gray eyes As the old man lifted the little girl in his arms, Mother Moonshower put the rain babies into the silver basket.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Despite the rain,crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first checkpoint in the Berlin Wall to open the night of November 9,1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09