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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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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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。

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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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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“

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

这时外面下起了大雨。

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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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