rain off

英 [reɪn ɒf]

美 [reɪn ɔːf]

（体育比赛）因雨暂停，因雨取消

柯林斯词典

• PHR-V-PASSIVE （体育比赛）因雨暂停,因雨取消
  If a sports gameis rained off, it has to stop, or it is not able to start, because of rain.
  1. Most of the games have been rained off.
     大部分比赛都因下雨而暂停了。
  2. ...a rained-off cricket match.
     因下雨而取消的板球比赛

in AM, use 美国英语用 rain out

双语例句

• The rain may hold off, but It'won't hurt to take an umbrella with you.
  雨可能下不下来，不过带把伞总没有坏处。
• A roof slopes so that the rain runs off it.
  屋顶是倾斜的，使雨水得以流掉。
• Fourthly, strong practicability; our products can be used to keep the rain off, which cannot be reached by other enterprises of oilpaper umbrella in China.
  实用性强：我们的油纸伞均可做雨具使用，这是目前国内其它油纸伞厂无法达到的工艺秘诀。
• Take that rain off those cases before you take them up.
  在你把箱子拿上去以前先弄干水。
• We hope the rain will hold off till evening.
  我们希望这场雨能拖到明天晚上下。
• She was coming in to tell us that the rain was easing off, when she stepped into a large puddle.
  她正准备进来告诉我们雨开始下小了，突然她跌入了一个大水坑。
• I hope the rain holds off until we get home.
  我希望我到家后再开始下雨。
• Maximum sustained winds near the center had dropped to about 100 miles an hour by Sunday morning, but the slow churn over the nation could dump large amounts of rain, setting off floods and mudslides.
  周日早晨，近中心最大持续风速降至约每小时100英里，但这样的缓慢移动可能会将大量雨水倾倒在菲律宾，引发洪水和泥石流。
• If the rain holds off for a few days more, they can finish the planting.
  如果这场雨还能晚几天再下，他们的种植任务就可以完成了。
• The heavy rain means putting off the sports meeting.
  大雨意味着运动会推迟了。