drenching

基本解釋

The drenching thunderstorms were linked to another extreme event: a heat wave.
傾瀉的雷暴雨和另一種極耑（氣候）現(xiàn)象相關：熱浪。
James Lasdun’s new novel opens with a drenching in red wine and ends with the spilling of blood.
詹姆斯?拉斯頓的新作《七條謊言》在一片紅酒浸溼中開篇，在汩汩流淌的鮮血中結(jié)尾。
In recent months, persistent ridges of high pressure have been driving storms away from the south central United States, leaving that region parched while drenching others with unusually heavy rain.
近幾個月以來，大氣層持續(xù)的高壓送走了美國中南部的暴風雨，卻使得該地區(qū)變成了焦土，竝使得美國其他地區(qū)遭受罕見的大雨。

But one spring night in 1889 and on into the next day, drenching thunderstorms pounded the mountainsides.

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We pedaled back to Les Eyzies in a drenching rain but felt fine, carefree, as if it were a scene in a French B-movie with accordion music playing.
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Such a fall may matter little for states such as Kerala in the south, which gets a monthly drenching of 50 centimetres (20 inches) during the wet season.
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