2ADJ-GRADED (时机)成熟的,适宜的 If a situation is ripe for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon. (时机)成熟的,适宜的
Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera. [+ for]
3PHRASE (活到)高龄 If someone lives to a ripe old age, they live until they are very old. (活到)高龄
He lived to the ripe old age of 95.
他活到了95岁高龄。
4PHRASE [usually verb-link PHRASE]唾手可得;得到…易如反掌 If something is ripe for picking or ripe for plucking, it will be very easy to obtain. 唾手可得;得到…易如反掌
Haig's message was that victory was ripe for picking.
黑格传达的意思是说胜利唾手可得。
5PHRASE [VERB inflects, oft PHRfor n, PHRASE to-infinitive]时机已经成熟 If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done. 时机已经成熟
He told reporters that he thought the time was ripe for a normalisation of relations.
他告诉记者他认为是时候恢复两国间正常关系。
The British Foreign Office has decided the time is ripe to send its first female ambassador to the region.
VERBS | ADVERB | PHRASESVERBS➤be, feel, look, smell, taste成熟;感覺成熟;看上去成熟;聞起來熟;嚐起來熟ADVERB➤really, very非常成熟◇a really ripe strawberry很熟的草莓➤fully, perfectly, quite完全成熟;相當成熟◇Make sure the plums are fully ripe before you eat them.李子一定要熟透了再吃。◇Some of the apples were not quite ripe.一些蘋果不太熟。➤almost, just, nearly差不多熟了;剛成熟;快成熟◇The crops were just about ripe.農作物就快成熟了。PHRASES➤ripe for the picking, ripe for the plucking, ripe for the taking (all usuallyfigurative) 唾手可得◇The army has withdrawn, leaving the country ripe for the picking.軍隊已經撤離,攻佔該國易如反掌。