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

• We hope the rain can hold off for a few hours.
  我们希望雨停几个小时。
• We hope the rain will hold off till evening.
  我们希望这场雨能拖到明天晚上下。
• We're gonna have this freezing rain on and off all night.
  看来这冻死人的雨水今天晚上是不会停了。
• 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。
• He shook the rain off his clothes.
  他把衣服上的雨水抖掉。
• I hope the rain holds off until we get home.
  我希望我到家后再开始下雨。
• 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。
• A roof slopes so that the rain runs off it.
  屋顶是倾斜的，使雨水得以流掉。
• 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。
• The car alarm is so sensitive that the little rain sets it off.
  汽车报警器太敏感了，这么点的雨都让它失灵了。