Be Rain

❌ It will be rain tomorrow. 

It’s going to rain tomorrow. 

It's going to be rainy tomorrow.

It will rain tomorrow.

We'll have rain tomorrow.

雨が/は

▸ 今ひどく雨が降っています 

It's raining hard [drizzling] now.

▸ しとしと雨が降っています 

It's raining hard [drizzling] now.

▸ あすは雨が降るだろう 

It will rain tomorrow.

We will have rain tomorrow. 

(話し手のいる場所について述べるときは It より We を主語にする方が多い) 

▸ 雨が降り出した

It started to rain.

The rain began [started] to fall. 

▸ 雨が降りやんだ 

The rain has stopped.

▸ 雨はやみそうになかった 

The rain showed no sign of letting up. 

▸ 今年はあまり雨が降らなかった 

We haven't had much rainfall this year.

▸ 今朝から雨が降ったりやんだりしている 

It has been raining on and off since this morning.

The rain has been coming and going since this morning.

▸ 雨がだんだん強くなってきた 

It's raining harder.

The rain is getting heavier.

▸ 家を出た時は雨がひどく降っていたが, 今は小降りになった 

It was raining hard when I left home, but now it has let up.

▸ 曇り時々雨 (天気予報で) 

Cloudy with occasional showers.

After a long time

△ We met after a long time.

→ We met for the first time in a long time.

△ I went to a beer garden after a long time.

→ I went to a beer garden for the first time in a long time.

久しぶり

 

for the first time in a long time

for the first time in ages

for the first time in many years

((1) after a long time ともいう. (2) ｟書｠ では「長い時の経過[留守; 音信不通; 別離]の後で」の意で after a long interval [absence; silence; separation] などを用いることもある )

▸ 彼女から久しぶりに電話があった

I had a call from her for the first time in a long time [in many years].｟書｠I had a call from her after a long silence.

▸ あんなに魅力のある人に会ったのは久しぶりだ

It's [It's been] a long time since I met such a charming person.

▸ 久しぶりに最高のニュースを聞いたよ

That's the best news I've heard for a long time.

▸ 久しぶりですね

I haven't seen you for a long time

I haven't seen you for ages

It's been ages!

(It's) good to see you again.

(!最後の言い方は仕事上などの改まった場合に用いる.「お久しぶり」に続く表現としては How have you been? (どうしてたの)や I could hardly recognize you. (誰だか分からなかった)などがある)

―振り

 

1 【…の後】

after …;〖…以来〗since …;〖…の期間で初めて〗for the first time in 〘ten years〙.

▸ 私は8年ぶりで彼に会った

I saw him for the first time in eight years.I saw him after (an [╳the] interval of) eight years [after an eight-year interval]. (!after eight years' interval とはあまりいわない) 【この前会ってから8年になる】It's [It's been] eight years since I saw him last. (!最初の表現がいちばん口語的)

▸ 登山者は5日ぶりに[遭難後5日ぶりに]救出された

The climbers were rescued after five days [five days after the mountain accident].

▸ 今年は20年ぶりの暖冬です

This is the warmest winter in ｟主に米｠ [for ｟主に英｠] 20 years.This is the warmest winter (that) we have had in () [for ｟主に英｠] the past [last] twenty years.

▸ こんなくつろいだ気分になるのは何年ぶりかです

I feel more relaxed than I've felt in ｟主に米｠ [for ｟主に英｠] years. (!than 以下に否定が含意された言い方で, I haven't felt as relaxed in [for] years (as this). (as this は通例省略する)に相当する )