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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him, and these, as they sped over the rich plain, would go bounding on over the ripe ears of corn and not break them; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the In-dian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy a ripe age for an elephant.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a booming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remained fat, and his round, red cheeks shone like ripe apples.
-- Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins (like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts.
-- He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All was ripe for it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found plenty strawberries, ripe and prime; and green summer grapes, and green razber-ries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show.
-- I was glad the way it come out, too, because crabapples ain't ever good, and the p'simmons wouldn't be ripe for two or three months yet.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His real name was Mastro Antonio, but everyone called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of his nose was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry.
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