倾盆 meaning in Chinese
heavy downpour; torrential rain; cloudburst
Examples
- The wind howled, trees crashed and rain slashed down .
狂风怒吼，树木倒折，雨水倾盆而下。 - The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents .
雨打着窗户，正在倾盆而下。 - The sky since dinner had darkened; it had begun to rain again, to pour fast .
中饭后天就黑下来，这会儿又开始下雨了，而且倾盆猛泻。 - After clear sky and calm weather, clouds gathered and a storm burst, and it rained with a very violent shower .
在天睛日暖之后突然乌云密集，大风狂起，暴雨倾盆。 - I sat in the other room burning tobacco and listening to the pouring rain and meditating on the many vicissitudes that come to a man during the seventy years or so immediately preceding his funeral .
我坐在另一间屋子里抽烟，听着倾盆雨声，思忖着人生在世七十年中，在葬礼之前，有多少变化莫测的事情。