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哦，糟了！开始下雨了！ “好像就要下雨了”是说做 It seems likely to rain. “已经下了一段时间”说做 It's raining. 2) The thunder claps really scare the children. 打雷（的声音）真的会吓坏小孩子的。 clap 用作动词时是拍手之意，名词则指“轰”的响声，thunder claps 是雷鸣。 scare 是“startle, frighten”之意，在这里是作 frighten 之意解。 Don't be scared. 不必怕。这一句在日常生活中经常使用。 3) Look! Lightening has struck the tree and it's on fire. 瞧！闪电划下来，引燃了树木。 促人注意时，正如同“Look! What you've done!”（瞧！你干的好事！）一般，常用“Look!” 4) The water has risen over the riverbank. 洪水溢过了防堤。 The river is rising. 则指河水涨高了。 5) The flood has left many people homeless. 许多人因洪水而失去了家园。 
这些建筑物是耐震建筑才对。 “...proof”是“耐～”的意思。fireproof building 是“耐火建筑”。 7) One woman, in Peru, was saved from an earthquake by lying between two mattresses. 秘鲁的一位妇女，躲在垫子之间从地震中死里逃生。 save from 是指从危险、灾难、毁誉等之中获救。 8) Hawaiians are used to the rumblings of the volcano. 夏威夷的人已经习惯于火山的爆发声了。 9) In Arizona, the stars seem very bright. 在亚利桑那州，星星看起来格外明亮。 seem 和 look like, appear 一样，指“外表是～”之意。 10) Look over to the southeast and you can see the con stellation of Orion. 眺望东南方向，你就可以看到猎户星座。 看星星可以用 look up，但由于这是要人看地平线那边的东南方，因而使用 look over。 
我急不可待地要见到新彗星的出现。 12) The comet will appear in the southern sky. 彗星出现在南方的天空。 13) The snow will soon be deep enough to ski on. 雪将会很快就积到可以滑的深度了。 14) We can't fly our kites any more because the wind has stopped. 由于风静止，所以已经没法放风筝了。 15) The wind was so strong last night that it blew down that tree. 昨晚的风强劲到刮倒了那棵树。 
风卷起褐色的墙壁似的滚滚黄沙，向这里袭来。 17) Do you like the soft touch of snowflakes on your face? 你喜欢柔软的雪花触到脸上时的感觉吗？ 18) Sometimes the snow was so deep we could tunnel through it. 偶尔雪会积到可以造隧道那般的深度。
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