薄はく明めい光こう線せん

noun

crepuscular rays; sunbeams

Technical term for rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky, often seen at dawn or dusk. Also used in everyday contexts to describe dramatic sunbeams breaking through clouds.

• 夕ゆう方がた、雲くもの切きれ間まから薄はく明めい光こう線せんが差さし込こんでいた。

  In the evening, crepuscular rays were shining through a break in the clouds.

• 薄はく明めい光こう線せんは、天使てんしの梯子はしごとも呼よばれる美うつくしい現げん象しょうだ。

  Crepuscular rays are a beautiful phenomenon also called 'angel's ladder'.