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

• 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。
• We hope the rain can hold off for a few hours.
  我们希望雨停几个小时。
• We're gonna have this freezing rain on and off all night.
  看来这冻死人的雨水今天晚上是不会停了。
• 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。
• The heavy rain means putting off the sports meeting.
  大雨意味着运动会推迟了。
• 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。
• He shook the rain off his clothes.
  他把衣服上的雨水抖掉。
• The rain kept off and we had sunshine for the wedding.
  没下雨，我们婚礼时有太阳光。
• We hope the rain will hold off till evening.
  我们希望这场雨能拖到明天晚上下。
• When it's wet and windy the average umbrella just doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to do& keeping the rain off your head and face.
  下雨天的时候，普通的雨伞似乎起不到它应该起到的作用&不让雨水落到你的头部和脸部。