Just this watery mass again. So it's creation undoing itself in some of the descriptions, as opposed to just heavy rain.

又变成了一个大水球,这里是自我毁灭，而不是毁于倾盆大雨。

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and the rain is coming down, the lightning hits and there's thunder.

大雨倾盆，电闪雷鸣。

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Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

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And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower.

这时外面下起了大雨。

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That is another question we want to ask And I think about the five days of pure rain, where people were soggy at the first night and it only got worse.

这也是我们想要问的另一个问题,以及“我们怎么成长“，我想到了，And，how，do，we，grow…,连续五天瓢泼大雨的一次,人们在第一天晚上都湿透了，状况越来越糟。

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Okay, rain seems to be there for different amounts of time, doesn't it?

关于大雨持续的时间不同，是吗？

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