drenching

基本解释

The drenching thunderstorms were linked to another extreme event: a heat wave.
倾泻的雷暴雨和另一种极端（气候）现象相关：热浪。
James Lasdun’s new novel opens with a drenching in red wine and ends with the spilling of blood.
詹姆斯•拉斯顿的新作《七条谎言》在一片红酒浸湿中开篇，在汩汩流淌的鲜血中结尾。
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.
近几个月以来，大气层持续的高压送走了美国中南部的暴风雨，却使得该地区变成了焦土，并使得美国其他地区遭受罕见的大雨。

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

Isaac has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but continues drenching Louisiana with rain as it crawls ashore.
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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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