We were about to get home, when it began to rain cats and dogs.

我们快要到家了，这时候下起了倾盆大雨。

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According the weather report, it'll rain cats and dogs. So we have to call the journey off.

天气预报说会有大雨，为此我们不得不取消了旅程。

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In the middle of the picnic, it started to rain cats and dogs and everybody got soaked.

在野餐进行到一半时突然下起瓢泼大雨，每个人都成了落汤鸡。

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We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

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At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.

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"They just say that it might snow and the whole city shuts down, " said Sheri Sable, who was out walking her two dogs in light rain and marveled at how even the dog park she frequents failed to open at 7 a.m.

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Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".

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