It's about to rain.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

That day, the rain that had been falling since morning seemed as if it was about to stop around the time that the streetlamps are lit, but as night came it suddenly turned into pouring rain.例文帳に追加

その日、朝から降り出した雨は町に灯りがつく頃ふとやみそうだったが、夜になると急にまた土砂降りになった。 - Tatoeba例文

The sky was steel gray and it was about to rain.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

空はやや紫がかった、または青みがかった濃い灰色で、今にも雨が降りそうだった。 - Weblio英語基本例文集

When there was nothing new to talk about on their long solitary walks——and it rained, as everyone had warned them that it would rain;発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

人気のない場所を話すこともなく長々と散歩したり、みなが口を揃えて雨になるだろうと言ったそのとおりに雨が降ったりしたとき、 - Virginia Woolf『ラピンとラピノヴァ』

A hinged rain shutter door 13 is mounted on each of the right and left side faces of the bay window in such a manner that it is free to rotate about a fulcrum 12 provided on a vertical frame 4 secured to a skeleton.例文帳に追加

出窓の左右の側面部に、躯体に固定される縦枠４側に設けられる支点１２を中心として回動自在に開き雨戸１３を取付ける。 - 特許庁

It is first seen in the history of the nation in the July 8, 702 section of the "Shoku-Nihongi" (the second in a series of chronicles about Japan), and thereafter frequently received hohei (offering a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god) by the Imperial Court as the god for praying for rain.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

国史の初見は『続日本紀』大宝(日本)2年（702年）7月8日条で、その後も祈雨の神としてたびたび朝廷からの奉幣があった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス