ripe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 熟的， 成熟的； (for) 时机成熟的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one an-other when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not be at peace because after dreaming so long of family life, and feeling himself so ripe for it, he was still not married, and was further than ever from marriage.
-- The silky grass with its ripe seeds came almost to his waist in the dampest spots.
-- "Anyway you make an offer, when your love is ripe or when the balance has completely turned between the two you are choosing from.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 165CHAPTER XIILiking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a GreatResolutionIN due time, Mr. Micawber's petition was ripe for hearing; andthat gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the act, to mygreat joy.
-- For anything I know, he was eatingsomething to keep the raw morning air out; but he made motionswith his mouth as if the pear were ripe already, and he weresmacking his lips over it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fell into a clever girl's hand just like the ripe peaches at Tara when the trees were gently shaken.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
-- HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS The nuts are quite ripe now,' said Chanticleer to his wife 'Partlet, 'suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.'
-- In this garden stood a fine large pear-tree full of ripe fruit; and Ashput-tel, not knowing where to hide herself, jumped up into it without being seen.
-- Presently the fruit became round and firm, and she was glad and at peace; but when they were fully ripe she picked the berries and 226 Grimms' Fairy Talesate eagerly of them, and then she grew sad and ill. A little while later she called her husband, and said to him, weep-ing.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked soft and warm herself, as a ripe pear, and she was an amazon of the real old breed.
-- And her soft, warm, ripe weight!Slowly his blood turned, and began to ebb back into strength and reckless vigour again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His smooth face had a bloom upon it like ripe wall-fruit.
-- He believed that Mr Meagles was disposed to entertain a ripe regard for him, and he knew that he had a sincere regard for Mr Meagles and his good wife.
-- A pity that no ripe touch of this generous abundance could be given to the thin, hard, stony wine, which after all was made from the grapes!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blancmange was lumpy, and the straw-berries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.
-- John was requested to order home a dozen or so of little pots and an extra quantity of sugar, for their own currants were ripe and were to be attended to at once.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few minutes the scuttle was opened, and, bound hand and foot, the still struggling ringleader was shoved up into the air by his perfidious allies, who at once claimed the honor of securing a man who had been fully ripe for murder.
-- For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat.
-- Dropping his spade, he thrust both hands in, and drew out handfuls of something that looked like ripe Windsor soap, or rich mottled old cheese; very unctuous and savory withal.
-- As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma, literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
-- Clinging to a spar with one hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others, shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for their fate.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vines had spread, indeed, over the trees, and the clusters of grapes were just now in their prime, very ripe and rich.
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