| 单词 | rain |
| 释义 | rain (once / 65 pages) nv Rain is what makes you go running for your umbrella. It's that water that comes down from sky when the dark clouds roll in. You can also use rain as a verb — as in the expression "Don't rain on my parade," which means don't ruin my good time by giving me bad news. You can also describe anything that comes down quickly and in quantity as something that rains down. On New Year's Eve, confetti rains down in Times Square. If you're unfortunate enough to find yourself in a war zone, you might hear bombs raining down around you. WORD FAMILYrain: rained, raining, rainless, rains, rainy+/rainy: rainier, rainiest, rainily, raininess USAGE EXAMPLESMore rain fell in October than in three decades, raising the state’s major reservoirs in Northern California and hopes that the drought will soon end. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Parts of the South are bracing for more rain Tuesday, a day after severe storms killed four people in Alabama. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) In Georgia, some of the heaviest rains were expected late Monday night and into the overnight hours of early Tuesday morning, forecasters said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere Syn|Hypo|Hyper rainfall monsoon any wind that changes direction with the seasons rainstorma storm with rain cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspouta heavy rain drizzle, mizzlevery light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower rain shower, showera brief period of precipitation equinoctial storm, line storma violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox thundershowera short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning scattering, sprinkle, sprinklinga light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby downfall, precipitation the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) 2n drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds Syn|Hyper rainwater fresh water, freshwater water that is not salty 3n anything happening rapidly or in quick successive a rain of bullets Syn|Hyper pelting chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession, successiveness a following of one thing after another in time 4v precipitate as rain If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding Syn|Hypo|Hyper rain down drizzle, mizzle rain lightly shower, shower downrain abundantly patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinklerain gently pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, streamrain heavily sheetcome down as if in sheets sluice, sluice downpour as if from a sluice come down, fall, precipitate fall from clouds |
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