由于庄稼歉收，过去几个月许多人都在挨饿；在2004年到2005年庄稼生长季节里，雨水下得并不均匀，而是过早的下起了暴雨。

Many people have gone hungry in the past few months thanks to a poor harvest: instead of falling evenly through the 2004-05 growing season, the rains came all at once, mostly early on.

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星期二的时候，北京从晚上10点钟左右就开始下起暴雨，第二天早些时候雨就停了，阳光明媚。中国首都一些地区还下起了冰雹。

Heavy rain pelted Beijing from around 10 PM on Tuesday, ending what had earlier been a sunny day. Hail fell in some parts of the Chinese capital.

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我们刚刚出发就下起了雷暴雨。

We had no sooner set out than a thunderstorm broke.

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