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 had eased off
  雨小了。
• The rain hold off just long enough for us to have our picnic.
  雨一时下不起来，我们有足够的时间吃完野餐。
• 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。
• Sheets of rain blew in off the bay.
  海湾上空下起倾盆大雨。
• 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。
• 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。
• I hope the rain keeps off.
  我希望雨暂时别下。
• While Alehin was telling his story, the rain left off and the sun came out.
  在阿列恒讲述他的故事时，雨停了，太阳出来了。
• We hope the rain will hold off till evening.
  我们希望这场雨能拖到明天晚上下。
• But this summer rain falls off a lot.
  但是这个夏天，雨总下个不停。