Rain Cats And Dogs——傾盆大雨

** heavy downpour（傾盆大雨）// rain very hard or heavily（雨下得很大或很嚴重）

~~ 傾盆大雨；大雨滂沱；滂沱大雨；瓢潑大雨；突降暴雨；下大雨

~~ rain buckets; come down in buckets; rain pitchforks; pelt down; pour down; come down in sheets; come down in torrents; rain hard; rain heavily;

!! Non-flying animals falling from the sky can occur because tornadic waterspouts sometimes carry creatures up to the sky. In 17th-centuryEngland, a heavy rainstorm (strong as a tornado) caused gutters to overflow with everything and dead cats and dogs.

不會飛的動物從天而降是可能發生的，因為龍捲風有時會將生物帶到天空。在十七世紀的英格蘭，一場暴雨（強如龍捲風）導致排水溝溢出一切事物，包括貓和狗的屍體。

!! In Northern European mythology, dogs were attendants of Odin, the storm (wind) god, while cats were rain.

在北歐神話中，狗是風暴（風）神奧丁的隨從，而貓是雨。

!! Another theory is that a raging storm with lightning is analogous to fighting cats and dogs.

另一種理論認為，帶有閃電的暴風雨類似貓狗搏鬥。

>> We have to be on time to meet with the venture capitalist whether it rains cats and dogs or not.

我們必須準時與風險資本家見面，不論是否傾盆大雨。

>> We had better cancel the picnic; looks like it's going to rain cats and dogs tomorrow.

我們最好取消野餐，看起來明天將會大雨滂沱。

學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師

李啟文　　教授