about toとは意味・読み方・使い方

成句

about to

1. (idiomatic, with infinitive verb) Indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent.

   He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.

   She seemed about to say something.

   • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Acts of the Apostles, xviii, 14

     And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

2. (as negative 'not about to', informal, originally US, Canada) Indicates that one has no intention of doing the stated thing at any time in the future.

   I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day.

   I'm not about to impose laws on people who disagree with them.

3. (obsolete in affirmative) Indicates that one is preparing or planning to do the stated thing at some time in the future, not necessarily imminently. [Attested from around 1150 to 1350 until the late 18^th century.^[1]]

同意語

• bound to
• fixing to

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