Anna

       IT’S RAINING.

The kind of rain that comes down so heavy it sounds like the shower’s running, even when you’ve turned itoff. The kind of rain that makes you think of dams and flash floods, arks. The kind of rain that tells you tocrawl back into bed, where the sheets haven’t lost your body heat, to pretend¹ that the clock is five minutesearlier than it really is.

Ask any kid who’s made it past fourth grade and they can tell you: water never stops moving. Rain falls, andruns down a mountain into a river. The river finds it way to the ocean. It evaporates², like a soul, into theclouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again.

1 pretend   

vt.假装，假托，装扮；vi.假装，装作

参考例句：

• So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了，对吧？
• Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。

2 evaporates   

v.（使某物）蒸发掉( evaporate的第三人称单数 )；消失，不复存在；使脱水

参考例句：

• Heat evaporates water into steam. 水受热变成水蒸气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• As the water evaporates, a crust of salt is left on the surface of the soil. 随着水分的蒸发，地面上留下了一层结晶盐。 来自辞典例句