It has not stopped raining and officials say this is hampering efforts.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

So problems arise but they're interesting problems, and they are a function, one of the six functions, of the expression "It is raining."

问题就出现在这里，但这是有趣的问题,是六功能中的一个“

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Well, you wake up in the morning and it is raining and being the conscientious and reliable young people that I know you to be, you probably forget to do it.

嗯，你早上醒来，并且在下雨,作为一个认真的，可信赖的年轻人,我知道你会这样做，你可能忘记了做。

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Literature, when it says "It is raining," is not looking out of the window, right?

文学上，当说到“天在下雨“时“,并未在同时往窗外看，是吧？

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It's really, in a sense, the physical image is of rain; it's raining, so it's leaking all over it.

这在某种意义上确实是，下雨的一种具体的描述;,因为在下雨，所以天空像是在漏水。

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It is the only form of knowledge free from the fallacy of unmediated expression--in other words, free from the fallacy that when I say "It is raining," I mean I'm a meteorologist and I mean it is raining.

它是唯一能免于未适当表达的谬误的一种知识形式,换句话说，免于一种谬误，比如，当我说“天在下雨“时“,我的意思是，我是一个气象学家，并且我的意思是天在下雨。

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What could be more prosaic than "It is raining?" All of a sudden you notice that string of "i's." You notice all kinds of other things about it.

最基本的意思就是“在下雨“，但是你注意到,“i’s“这个词，你注意到它的相关意义。

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What kind of a definition of "it" is "It's raining?"

里头的“it“是什么意思呢？

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