ripe
adj
1 (of fruit, grain, etc) ready to be gathered and used, esp for eating (指水果、 谷物等)成熟的
Are the apples ripe enough to eat yet? 這些蘋果已經熟了嗎?
harvest the ripe corn 收割已成熟的谷物
(fig 比喻) Her lips were ripe as cherries, ie full and red like ripe cherries. 她的嘴唇像櫻桃一樣紅潤.
2 (of cheese) fully matured or developed (指乾酪)已成熟的: ripe cheese 成熟的乾酪
(rare fig 罕, 比喻) ripe judgement, scholarship 成熟的判斷力、 豐富的學識.3 (of a person's age) advanced (指人)成年的, 上年紀的
men of riper years 已成年的男子
lived to a ripe old age 活到高齡
(ironic 反語) at the ripe old age of 21 正值21歲高齡.
4 [pred 作表語]
~ (for sth) ready; fit; prepared 時機成熟; 適宜; 準備就緒
land that is ripe for development 適合開發的土地
a nation ripe for revolution 革命時機已成熟的國家.
5 (idm 習語) the time is ripe => time1.