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

VOA: special.2009.01.17

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

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

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

VOA: special.2011.01.11

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

The twenty-two men rested until dark, listening to rain hit the roof of the farm house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Some 1,500 people attended the two-hour ceremony under the soaring white dome of the basilica, as rain poured down outside.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In Melbourne,pouring rain and chilly temperatures didn't deter thousands of concert-goers who've attended one of the biggest music events in Australia's history.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

A rain-soaked President Obama delivered a somber message from a Coast Guard station on Louisiana's threatened coastline.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

Surrounded by 30-meter tall pines, she said she was praying for rain - and keeping her documents in her car for a quick escape.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

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

About a 45-minute drive north of Vancouver, it has been hit with unseasonably warm temperatures that have brought rain and destroyed much of the existing snow.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

It was a low-key arrival in a chilly rain.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

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

Clinton arrived late Friday in a heavy rain at the Taj Palace Hotel on Mumbai's ocean front, which was one of the targets of Pakistan-based terrorists who killed 166 people in a coordinated series of attacks in the Indian business capital last November.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17