It was something like being caught in a hailstorm of owls, to tell the truth.

说句实话，猫头鹰接二连三地飞来，就好像下了一场冰雹。

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy blast?

他掷下冰雹如碎渣，他发出寒冷，谁能得起？

So we could use the sentence, there was a big hailstorm today.

所以我们可以用这句话，今天下了一场大冰雹。

It was a sham, of course: many proud Ukrainians under Russia's hail of artillery and missiles have long been proud Russian-speakers, too.

然，这是一个骗局：在俄罗斯大炮和导的冰雹下，许多自豪的乌克兰人长期以来也是自豪的说俄语的人。

She got our attention a few weeks ago when she thought it would be funny to see what our house and yard looked like under 12 inches of hail.

几周前引起了我们的注意， 认为看看我们的房子和院子在 12 英寸冰雹下的样子会很有趣。

For a few minutes the rain came in a grand torrent like a waterfall, then hail; some of the hailstones an inch in diameter, hard, icy, and irregular in form, like those oftentimes seen in Wisconsin.

几分钟后，雨像瀑布一样倾泻而下，然后是冰雹。有些冰雹直径一英寸，坚硬、冰冷、形状不规则，就像在威斯康星州经常看到的冰雹一样。

Their men might be dying, even now, on the sun-parched grass of the Pennsylvania hills. Even now the Southern ranks might be falling like grain before a hailstorm, but the Cause for which they fought could never fall.

他们的人可能正在牺牲，甚至就在此此刻，在宾夕法尼亚山地太阳烤着的荒草上，甚至就在此此刻，南方的士兵可能正在纷纷倒下，象冰雹下的谷物一般，但是他们为之战斗的主义永远不会倒。

" Why, hail that falls every evening here; and, till it comes close to me, it's like so much warm rain: but then it turns to hail over my head, and knocks me about like small shot" .

“为什么，这里每天晚上都会下冰雹；而且，在它靠近我之前，它就像一场温暖的雨：但后来它变成了冰雹，落在我的头上，像一颗小子一样把我击倒”。