The prospect of a long wait in the rain did not appeal.

想到要在雨中久等使人扫兴。

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The house looked grim and dreary in the rain.

这房子在雨中显得阴郁凄凉。

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The worst part was having to wait three hours in the rain.

最糟糕的是必须在雨中等待三个小时。

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Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

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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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The Peugeot No.9 was leading when the rain started in the 14th hour, offering an opportunity for the Audi cars to make up for their relative lack of speed in dry conditions.

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Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.

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Better to watch the rain fall in the branches of winter trees.

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