1.倾盆大雨
2.(日光的)照射
1.a large amount of rain that falls quickly
1.Lydia: You must have slept like a log. It's clouding over again. It looks as if we were going to have another downpour.
莉迪亚：你一定睡得很熟。现在又乌云密布了，看来像又要下倾盆大雨啦。
2.The downpour transformed a local machinery factory into a huge pond. Plumes of smoke are the only evidence of the production that once was.
倾盆大雨将当地一个机械厂变成一个巨大的鱼塘。浓烟是工厂曾经存在的唯一证据。
3.When he got out of the tunnel , what he gained is the ablution of the God rather than the downpour from the sky .
这句最好是直翻：当他终于从地道爬出时，他得到的不是倾盆暴雨，而是上帝的亲自施洗。
4.The wind changed round suddenly last night and brought with it a heavy downpour.
昨晚风向突然变了，随之而来的是一场瓢泼大雨。
5.The downpour quickly ran off the barren hills and began building up in the narrow valley.
倾泻的暴雨很快冲光贫瘠的山泥，小峡谷开始显现。
6.I think it will let up in a little while. A downpour like this never lasts long here at this time.
我想马上会停的。每年这个时间像这样的大雨不会下很久的。
7.We've all seen rainbows shimmering across the sky as the sun returns after a downpour.
滂沱大雨后的晴空下，我们往往会看到阳光下若隐若现的彩虹。
8.It had been raining cats and dogs for over a week and the downpour had caused landslides in many places.
倾盆大雨已下了一个多星期，造成了许多地区塌方。
9.Suddenly the fly finds itself pinned-under a downpour, of glue, as if in a Roman centurion 's net.
突然间苍蝇发现它自己被倾盆而下的粘胶粘住身子，犹如落入古罗马军团百夫长的网罩中。
10.About a decade ago, there was a team of soldiers passed here and stayed in the forest overnight, only to be showered by the downpour.
十多年前，有一队解放军路过这里，在树林里过夜，半夜淋了大雨。