汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 乾打雷,不下雨
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
比喻只有声势,没有实际行动。
dǎ/dá léi bù/bú xià
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

要是不下雨,义卖会就照常进行。

The fete will go ahead provided the rain keeps off.

不管第二天下不下雨,一切事情照旧。

The next day, rain or no rain, it was business as usual.

如果明天不下雨,我们打算去看一部武打片。

We are going to see an action movie if it won't rain tomorrow.

如果一个月内不下雨就真没戏了。

If there's no rain within a month it really will be hopeless.

基列寄居的提斯比人以利亚对亚哈说:“我指着所事奉永生耶和华以色列的上帝起誓,这几年我若不祷告,必不降露,不下雨。”

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord , the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."

基列寄居的提斯比人以利亚对亚哈说,我指着所事奉永生耶和华以色列的神起誓,这几年我若不祷告,必不降露,不下雨。

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, 'As the Lord , the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.'