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rainwater

/reyn-waw-ter, -wot-er/US // ˈreɪnˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər //UK // (ˈreɪnˌwɔːtə) //

雨水,涔涔,涔涔沥沥,涔涔雨

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : water fallen as rain.

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Examples

  • Temperature swings are incessant and severe, as hot wastewater from showers and washing machines mixes with captured rainwater.

  • The stormwater pipes are important because they give that rainwater a place to go instead of pooling in streets or yards, causing floods.

  • Birds and high winds have broken some of the 650 unprotected neon tubes that stretch 4,400 linear feet, and rainwater has infiltrated the connectors.

  • They’ve uncovered spots others likely never knew about, like the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane and the rainwater drains under Sydney.

  • Farmers have been struggling in India to grow crops, as they are still heavily reliant on rainwater.

  • The deluge comes from the ceiling, where excess rainwater has worked its way into the subway car from outside.

  • They had to stay on a patch of asphalt that had been put down to keep rainwater from bleeding into the contaminated soil.

  • A lot of older cities have sewer systems that take rainwater, sewage, and industrial wastewater in the same pipe.

  • Some solbreeders still exist on nearby anchored ships, living off fish and rainwater, and some hope of eventual rescue.

  • RH: The planking system drains into the plantings so only about 20 percent of the rainwater will go into the sewer system.

  • Here and there were small pools—mere discs of rainwater with a tinge of blood.

  • A little rainwater wont hurt meI aint neither sugar nor salt.

  • All my saved rainwater was turned brackish, save that in my largest vessel which was sheltered in the lee of the pyramid.

  • Common yellow soap is better than scented soap, and rainwater than ordinary water.

  • Some of it was carried along by rainwater, but generally it remained: in any case it was noxious and dangerous.