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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rain squalls drifted across their russet face, and the heavy, slate-coloured clouds hung low over the landscape, trailing in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doorway was dark and gloomy at any time; but just at this moment it was rendered doubly so by the fact that the thunderstorm had just broken, and the rain was coming down in torrents.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
-- As torrents swollen with rain course madly down their deep channels till the angry floods meet in some gorge, and the shepherd on the hillside hears their roaring from afar even such was the toil and uproar of the hosts as they joined in battle.
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
-- When Aeneas saw him thus making havoc among the ranks, he went through the fight amid the rain of spears to see if he could find Pandarus.
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heavy blows began to rain upon the door.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli's capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was go-ing to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold.
-- He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.
-- The dew from the trees above spattered down like rain on the unseen backs, and a dull booming noise began, not very loud at first, and Little Toomai could not tell what it was.
-- The rain began to fall again, and for a while it was too misty to see what the troops were doing.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind made their clearings; the sun and rain ripened their fruits; and the snows came to tell them to be thankful.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rain fell mingled with snow.
-- Heavy rain was dashed by the storm into particles like dust.
-- The rain was not very heavy, but the wind was terrific.
-- "Yes, master, replied Neb; "here, at the entrance, at the back of the mound, in a place sheltered from the rain and wind.
-- Besides, until the window-frames were made, the engineer meant to close the openings with thick shutters, which would prevent either wind or rain from entering, and which could be concealed in need.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occupied with such thoughts as these, and a crowd of others all tending to the same point, I continued to pace the street for two long hours; at length the rain began to descend heavily, and then over-powered by fatigue though no less interested than I had been at first, I engaged the nearest coach and so got home.
-- Mr Swiveller complied, and looking about him with a propitiatory smile, observed that last week was a fine week for the ducks, and this week was a fine week for the dust; he also observed that whilst standing by the post at the street-corner, he had observed a pig with a straw in his mouth issuing out of the tobacco-shop, from which appearance he augured that another fine week for the ducks was approaching, and that rain would certainly ensue.
-- CHAPTER 16The sun was setting when they reached the wicket-gate at which the path began, and, as the rain falls upon the just and unjust alike, it shed its warm tint even upon the resting-places of the dead, and bade them be of good hope for its rising on the morrow.
-- Make haste in out of the wet, Tom; when it came on to rain I told 'em to make the fire up, and there's a glorious blaze in the kitchen, I can tell you.'
-- The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He arrived toward the end of March, on Good Friday, in the season of bad roads, when the rain was falling in torrents, and was wet all through, and chilled to the marrow of his bones, but courageous and excited, as he always felt at that time of the year.
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