??近几年，全世界都在遭受暴雨灾害，关于暴雨的报导也是层见叠出。那末“暴雨”用英语怎样说呢？咱们常常见到big rain，或it's raining cats and dogs多么的表达，那末，还有其它的表达办法吗？若何让本身的白话和作文愈加出彩，让咱们一块儿来进修一下吧。

1. heavy rainfall/rain

"heavy"在外刊中呈现的频率最高，可所以各类强度暴雨的总称。

Officials warn of hazardous travel conditions as heavy rainfall causes disruption in the capital. (BBC)

The storm could bring extremely heavy rainfall to millions in China. (CNN)

2. pounding rain

“pounding rain”指由暴风雨或飓风等引发的大雨，声响比家中播映的电视或音乐还要大，且使人感触不安

The pounding rain on the roof makes it sound like the roof is about to cave in.

在此句中，咱们可以看到，雨下得太大了，感触房顶都要塌了。

3. excessive rain

该词用来描述连续性强降雨，中文对应：淫雨；很是降雨；过多降雨，或暴雨。连续性强降雨会致使路面积水、车道浸没，甚至房屋渗水。表象学术语中指24小时内降雨量跨过100小妹

Flash floods, landslides, infrastructure destruction, water contamination are all possible consequence of excessive rain. (NBC)

Excessive rain will cause a variety of problems for producers. (IFAS Extension, University of Florida)

4. pouring rain

“pouring rain”就是中文中所说的“倾盆大雨”了，重要指悉数降雨年代，强度根基连接平稳。人在这类强度的雨中，无法撑起雨伞。

I was held up in my office for nearly two hours. It seemed like this pouring rain wanted to keep us here all night.

Shoppers were forced to evacuate into the pouring rain on Monday afternoon when the alarms sounded. (worldhippo)

5. strong rain

“strong rain”指大暴雨， 尤指重重敲击房顶的大雨。这类大暴雨会给损害根柢行动办法。人若在雨中行走，会感触肌肤刺痛。不过，这类表达在英文中使用频率其实不高，常常运用heavy rain替代了。

The strong rains over the weekend ruined my backyard garden, so I’ll have to replant all of my flowers.

6. torrential

“torrential rain”也可译为“倾盆大雨”，但如该词的torrent所标明的那样，这类大雨是飞跃的，激流的，倾泻的，常由暴风或飓风所引发，指在至关长的一段时分内的强降雨。这类大雨强度大，速率急，会使地上各类建筑、物体等在几秒钟内灵敏被渗透。

It goes without saying that the brunch is canceled. The weather report predicted torrential rains, and we don’t want to be caught in that.

Torrential rain has destroyed crops and delayed the planting of corn of soybeans, costing farmers billions, claiming lives and destroying livelihoods. (NBC)

7. violent rain

“violent rain”具有暂停性的成果，它会损坏各类建筑和根柢行动办法，致使房屋漏水和破损等，还会构成洪水迸发，人畜伤亡。

The violent rains on Tuesday were the worst I’ve seen in my 15 years of living in this city.

以上都是描述词，此外，还可以用名词和动词来表达暴雨：

8. downpour

指出其不料的“倾盆大雨”

Heavy downpours have become more co小妹on since the middle of the last century, when global warming started to intensify. (NBC)

Heavy downpours can devastate co小妹unities, disrupt agriculture and contribute to road accidents and other problems. (NBC)

9. rain hard

直接表达雨下得很大，很急

Because it started raining hard, we played indoors.

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