ripe: [OE] Ripe is restricted to the West Germanic languages – it has relatives in German reif and Dutch rijp. Its antecedents are uncertain, but some have linked it with reap [OE], as if its underlying meaning is ‘ready for harvesting’. And reap itself may go back to an Indo- European base *rei- ‘tear, scratch’, and hence denote etymologically ‘strip’ the fruits, seeds, etc from plants.
ripe (adj.)
Old English ripe "ready for reaping, fit for eating, mature," from West Germanic *ripijaz (cognates: Old Saxon ripi, Middle Dutch ripe, Dutch rijp, Old High German rifi, German reif); related to Old English repan "to reap" (see reap). Meaning "ready for some action or effect" is from 1590s. Related: Ripely; ripeness.
实用例句
1. The conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
这种疾病传播的条件已经成熟。来自柯林斯例句
2. 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。来自柯林斯例句
3. He lived to the ripe old age of 95.
他活到了95岁高龄。来自柯林斯例句
4. Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera.
