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单词 to be rained on
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to be rained on (also upon)
b. intransitive. In prepositional passive. to be rained on (also upon): to be fallen upon by rain. Usually with on, upon.
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a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxii. 24 Thou art the vnclene loond, not reynyd togidir [a1425 L.V. bireyned; L. compluta; Coverdale, etc. rayned vpon] in the dai of woodnes.
1561 N. Winȝet Cert. Tractates in Wks. (1888) I. 14 Ane vnclene land, quhilk is not raynit vpon.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezekiel xxii. 24 Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
1688 W. Barton tr. Six Cent. Select Hymns iii. 274 One piece was rain'd upon and sped, And that which was not withered.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 125 Near the cart was a half-dozing cow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained on.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxiv. 240 We..travelled on..often buried in mist, almost continually blown and rained upon, and not once cheered by any glimpse of sunshine.
1914 R. L. Frost North of Boston 105 He's got hay down that's been rained on three times.
1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 8 The cheap breeches..skintight as if both they and their wearer had been recently and hopelessly rained on.
1937 Burlington Mag. June 262/1 Rained-on, as it were, by Nature.
1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet v. 443 We must put the chairs on the verandah, otherwise they will be rained on.
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