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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life.
-- Little MotherThe morning light was in no hurry to climb the prison wall and look in at the Snuggery windows; and when it did come, it would have been more welcome if it had come alone, instead of bringing a rush of rain with it.
-- Some of them had been lounging in the rain until the gate should open; others, who had timed their arrival with greater nicety, were coming up now, and passing in with damp whitey-brown paper bags from the grocers, loaves of bread, lumps of butter, eggs, milk, and the like.
-- The morning remained squally, and the streets were miserably muddy, but no rain fell as they walked towards the Iron Bridge.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah hated rain as much as a cat does so she made no trouble, and they rolled away in the luxurious close car-riage, feeling very festive and elegant.
-- She had not the heart to refuse her splendid, successful boy any-thing, and answered warmly... 'I'll come, Teddy, rain or shine, and march before you, playing 'Hail the conquering hero comes' on a jew's-harp.'
-- And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.
-- A drop of rain on her cheek recalled her thoughts from baffled hopes to ruined ribbons.
-- Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they put the bier on the brink of the grave; and the two mourners waited patiently in the damp clay, with a cold rain drizzling down, while the ragged boys whom the spectacle had attracted into the churchyard played a noisy game at hide-and-seek among the tombstones, or varied their amusements by jumping backwards and forwards over the coffin.
-- Sometimes, indeed, a grizzly head might be seen, peering over the parapet-wall of a distant house; but it was quickly withdrawn again; and as the window of Oliver's observatory was nailed down, and dimmed with the rain and smoke of years, it was as much as he could do to make out the forms of the different objects beyond, without making any attempt to be seen or heard,--which he had as much chance of being, as if he had lived inside the ball of St. Paul's Cathedral.
-- The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch.
-- The fog was much heavier than it had been in the early part of the night; and the atmosphere was so damp, that, although no rain fell, Oliver's hair and eyebrows, within a few minutes after leaving the house, had become stiff with the half-frozen moisture that was floating about.
-- The rain came down, thick and fast, and pattered noisily among the leafless bushes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back.
-- said Mrs. Bennet more than once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own.
-- If there had not been a Netherfield ball to prepare for and talk of, the younger Miss Bennets would have been in a very pitiable state at this time, for from the day of the invitation, to the day of the ball, there was such a succession of rain as prevented their walking to Meryton once.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having got my second cargo on shore - though I was fain to open the barrels of powder, and bring them by parcels, for they were too heavy, being large casks - I went to work to make me a little tent with the sail and some poles which I cut for that purpose: and into this tent I brought every-thing that I knew would spoil either with rain or sun; and I piled all the empty chests and casks up in a circle round the tent, to fortify it from any sudden attempt, either from man or beast.
-- At the same time it happened, after I had laid my scheme for the setting up my tent, and making the cave, that a storm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a sud-den flash of lightning happened, and after that a great clap of thunder, as is naturally the effect of it.
-- Much rain also in the days, though with some intervals of fair weather; but it seems this was the rainy season.
-- I spent this day in covering and securing the goods which I had saved, that the rain might not spoil them.
-- - Much rain all night and all day.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
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