rain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 雨； 雨天； 下雨vi. 下雨vt. 使大量落下，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No Sons and Loverswind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- Sometimes, it was given in a tender rain of tears, and then it was, 'Take me to her.'
-- The passen-ger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek.
-- There are large drops of rain falling, and they made me start.
-- Rain was really falling in large drops, and he showed the back of his hand 141with rain-drops on it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Princess now stood and wept, the swineherd scolded, and the rain poured down.
-- One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poured down from the sky in tor- rents: besides, it was as dark as pitch.
-- What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condi- tion; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body.
-- One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it 40 Andersen's Fairy Taleswere but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.
-- I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the 130 Andersen's Fairy Taleshouse where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door it was dreadful weather when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then all of a sudden, on Easter Monday, a warm wind sprang up, storm clouds swooped down, and for three days and three nights the warm, driving rain fell in streams.
-- Before he had driven many paces away, the dark clouds that had been threatening rain all day broke, and there was a heavy downpour of rain.
-- Chapter 22 The rain did not last long, and by the time Vronsky arrived, his shaft-horse trotting at full speed and dragging the trace-horses galloping through the mud, with their reins hanging loose, the sun had peeped out again, the roofs of the summer villas and the old limetrees in the gardens on both sides of the principal streets sparkled with wet brilliance, and from the twigs came a pleasant drip and from the roofs rushing streams of water.
-- Seryozha had been caught by the rain in the big garden, and he and his nurse had taken shelter in an arbor.
-- Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night was dark, and a fine, steady rain was falling.
-- The storm of rain and wind descended upon them towards eight o'clock.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At two o'clock, when the rain had slackened, when the after-lunch crowd had come in and the story of the anti ladies was running strong, the fireman retired behind the Clean Up and Prevent Fires exhibit for his hourly smoke.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, in-sulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
-- In the street the heat was insufferable again; not a drop of rain had fallen all those days.
-- There was a clap of thunder, and the rain came down like a waterfall.
-- The rain still persisted.
-- The logical connection of the present with his immediate departure and the absolute necessity of visiting them for that purpose in pouring rain at midnight was not made clear.
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