"The rain in Burkina Faso during one year represents 1,200 millimeters,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

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

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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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

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。

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

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

VOA: special.2009.09.07

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

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

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。

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

VOA: special.2011.03.29

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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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。

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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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.05

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

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

Farms in many areas failed because little or no rain fell for several years.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

A combination of snow, rain and freezing conditions caused traffic problems in Germany.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

They were chokingly dusty in dry weather and impassably muddy in the rain.

VOA: special.2010.11.25

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

Adding plastic film works well in rain and snow.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Joan Baez closed the evening in the rain ."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

The orchid grows in the rain forests of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.04.06