Ripen
['raɪp(ə)n] or ['raɪpən]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) grow ripe; 'The plums ripen in July'.
(verb.) cause to ripen or develop fully; 'The sun ripens the fruit'; 'Age matures a good wine'.
格温多林手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
(v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.
(v. t.) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
(v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
手打:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Grow ripe, be matured.
v. a. Mature, bring to maturity, make ripe.
布雷特整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man, and will ripen our food. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Things will grow and ripen as if it were a comet year, said Will. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- They are ripening fast. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I see trees laden with ripening fruit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Even in the ripening of fruits heat appears to him to h ave a cooking effect. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Obstacles were a ripening sun to his love, and he was at this moment in a delirium of exquisite misery. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The slow ripening of it still left me a measure of precaution to take, an obligation of gratitude to perform, and a doubtful question to solve. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Then she longed to breathe the fresh air, to revisit her flowers, to see how the fruit had ripened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Culture means at least something cultivated, something ripened; it is opposed to the raw and crude. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
編輯:维尔玛