After the rain the lotus flowers looked fuller.

雨后荷花显得更加润泽了。

《新英汉大辞典》

After three hours of intermittent rain, the game was abandoned.

雨断断续续地下了3个小时之后，比赛被取消了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

After heavy rain, the river was in spate.

大雨过后，河水暴涨。

《牛津词典》

"Other than that it was driving rain the first day." Crews visually scan for ribbons and sheets of oil.

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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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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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New York has experienced only 2.06 inches of rain the past 20 days after a winter that set records for snow, which funneled water to tree roots.

WSJ: Sniff, Sneeze, Blow, Wipe, Repeat

"With all the rain we've been getting across the southeast, the temperatures have been getting lower and the rain has been washing the pollen out of the air, " he says.

CNN: Southern deluge may help fall allergy sufferers

Then Mother Nature plugged the rain and the golfing stars shone in "one of the best days in Europe's history" as a "phenomenal" afternoon of golf washed away frustrations of moaning in the morning rain.

BBC: Europe reign after the storm