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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny Elsing, pale and hollow eyed since Gettysburg, wastrying to keep her mind from the torturing picture which had worn a groove in her tired mind these past several months Lieutenant Dallas McLure dying in a jolting ox cart in the rain on the long, terrible retreat into Maryland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thank Goodness it will always be a consolation to me to know that I instantly went out in a pouring rain and bought the things."
-- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
-- Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.
-- When the rain came with it and dashed against the windows, I thought, raising my eyes to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse.
-- I relinquished the intention he had detected, for I knew him!Even yet I could not recall a single feature, but I knew him!If the wind and the rain had driven away the intervening years, had scattered all the intervening objects, had swept us to the churchyard where we first stood face to face on such different levels, I could not have known my convict more distinctly than I knew him now as he sat in the chair before the fire.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind.
-- Besides, as it is in the power of the monarch to raise the island above the region of clouds and vapours, he can prevent the falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a wet night, and many groups of young women passed him, with their shawls drawn over their bare heads and held close under their chins to keep the rain out.
-- But, they were broken now, and the rain had ceased, and the moon shone, looking down the high chimneys of Coketown on the deep furnaces below, and casting Titanic shadows of the steam-engines at rest, upon the walls where they were lodged.
-- The rain fell, and the Smoke-serpents, submissive to the curse of all that tribe, trailed themselves upon the earth.
-- The rain falls very heavy, and the wind has risen.'
-- The wind was blowing again, the rain was beating on the house-tops, and the larger spaces through which he had strayed contracted to the four walls of his room.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mixture of rain and snow fell during the whole day.
-- It fell at last, bringing with it a shower of small stones, lava and dust, a disagreeable kind of rain or hail.
-- Nevertheless, the rain formed a roaring cataract before this horizon of which we were in search, and to which we were rushing like madmen.
-- The rain has fallen in abundance, and filled the hollows of the granite.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain was abating.
-- As she went home, a fine drizzle of rain fell.
-- The drizzle of rain was like a veil over the world, myste-rious, hushed, not cold.
-- How still ev-erything was!The fine rain blew very softly, filmily, but the wind made no noise.
-- The drizzle of rain drifted greyly past upon the dark-ness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the rain began to fall in slanting lines between him and those houses, and people began to collect under cover of the public passage opposite, and to look out hopelessly at the sky as the rain dropped thicker and faster.
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