他们突然遇上了倾盆大雨，全身都湿透了。The football match had to hold off for about half an hour because of a driving rain.
lightrain 小雨；fine rain 细雨；rain shower 阵雨；heavy rain 暴雨；driving rain 大风雨；torrential rain 倾盆大雨；freezing rain 冻雨；summer rain 夏雨；rain season 雨季；
drizzle 毛毛雨， =drowlight rain 小雨，微雨，丝丝小雨pouring rain 瓢泼大雨，倾盆大雨 =rain cats and dogsa storm 暴风雨rain showers 阵雨
除了 heavy 可以形容雨大之外，我们还可以用 torrential 和 driving 等来形容，而不用 strong，如 torrential/driving rain，它们在程度上更强，可以意为“倾盆大雨”等，其中 driving 往往伴随着风吹，例如:At least 150 people are believed to have died after two days of torrential rain deluged the capital.雨后，街上到处都是死猫和死狗，让人觉得好像下了倾盆大雨。
