ripe
adj. 成熟的; 口味濃郁的; 難聞的; 時機成熟的
Ripe fruit or grain is fully grown and ready to eat.
Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.
一定要挑選硬實但已成熟的水果。
...fields of ripe wheat.
成熟的麥田
If a situation is ripe for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon.
Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera...
霍亂即將暴發。
This society is ripe for change.
發生社會變革的時機已經成熟。
If someone lives to a ripe old age, they live until they are very old.
He lived to the ripe old age of 95.
他活到了95歲高齡。
If something is ripe for picking or ripe for plucking, it will be very easy to obtain.
Haig's message was that victory was ripe for picking.
黑格傳達的意思是說勝利唾手可得。
If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
He told reporters that he thought the time was ripe for a normalisation of relations...
他告訴記者他認為是時候恢復兩國間正常關係。
The British Foreign Office has decided the time is ripe to send its first female ambassador to the region.
英國外交部作出決定現在可以向該地區派駐第一位女大使。
1. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used;
2. fully prepared or eager;
3. most suitable or right for a particular purpose;
4. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge;
5. far along in time;
mature, ripe
這兩個形容詞都含"成熟的"之意。
the time is ripe
時機已經成熟,時機已到
These grapes are ripe.
這些葡萄熟了.
Emergent democracies created markets that were ripe for exploitation.
新興的民主國家創造了可供開拓的成熟市場.
The time is not yet ripe.
為時尚早.
If you agree to this name, madam , she's sure to live to a ripe old age.
姑奶奶若依我這名字, 必然長命百歲.
When the fruits are ripe, they fall from the trees.
當果實成熟時, 它們從樹上落下.