It started to rain.

...the spring, when the rains came...

春天，雨季来临时

heavy/torrential/driving rain

大雨；倾盆大雨

It hardly rained at all last summer.

去年夏天几乎没怎么下雨。

Falling debris rained on us from above.

碎片从上面像雨点儿一样落在我们身上。

a small farmer

小农场主

What were you like when you were small?

你小的时候是什么样子？

They have three small children.

他们有三个年幼的孩子。

a small house/town/car/man

小房子；小镇；小型汽车；小个子男人

A small group of students meets regularly to learn Japanese...

一小组学生定期聚在一起学习日语。

'I'm scared,' she said in a very small voice.

她非常小声地说：“我很害怕。”

She noticed several small errors in his work.

她注意到他作业中有几处小错。

She is small for her age...

她看上去比同龄人个头小。

Tool companies here are generally small.

这里制造工具的公司普遍规模不大。

That dress is too small for you.

那件连衣裙你穿太小。

...shops, restaurants and other small businesses...

商店、饭馆以及其他小企业

‘I don't agree, ’ he said in a small (= quiet) voice.

“我不同意。”他小声说。

This may just be another of her schemes to make me look small...

这也许是她处心积虑要让我自惭形秽的另一步棋。

The window was far too small for him to get through...

窗户对他来说实在太小，他钻不过去。

small, medium, large

小号、中号、大号

This is too big─have you got a small one?

这个太大——有没有小的？