喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: a fruit that has had all the time it needs. It has gone as far as growing can take it — soft, sweet, heavy on the branch — and now it is at the exact point where you should pick it. Wait longer and it starts to turn.

一顆掛在枝頭、時間已經給足了的果子：它該長的都長完了，變軟、變甜、變沉，正停在「該摘了」的那一刻。這個畫面裡有兩件事…更多收起一顆掛在枝頭、時間已經給足了的果子：它該長的都長完了，變軟、變甜、變沉，正停在「該摘了」的那一刻。這個畫面裡有兩件事同時成立——一是「發展到位」，二是「時間點剛好、再等就過頭」。ripe 之後所有的意思幾乎都在這兩件事之間擺盪：有時候強調熟透，有時候強調「時候到了、甚至早該到了」，有時候（起司、氣味）強調的是熟過頭之後那股濃到有存在感的味道。

Four branches

果實熟成

這一族就是核心畫面本身：真的長熟了、可以吃了的具體狀態。

ripe (fruit) · adjective · A2

Ripe fruit or crops have grown all the way and are now soft or sweet enough to pick and eat.

成熟的

時機到了（該發生了）

把「果子熟了該摘」整個搬到抽象的局面上：不是東西長熟，而是條件湊齊、時候到了。

be ripe for something · adjective · B2

If a place, a system, or a group is ripe for something, it is ready for that change to happen, and often the change should have happened sooner. Used in the phrase 'be ripe for something'.

時機成熟；亟需（改變）

活到熟成的年紀

果子的熟成需要時間，人的高壽也是時間堆出來的；這族把「熟」的計量單位從甜度換成年歲。

a ripe old age (very old) · adjective · B2

If someone lives to a ripe old age, they are very old when their life ends. Used in the phrase 'a ripe old age'.

高齡；長壽

放久了、味道變濃

果子熟了會變甜也會變香；把焦點從「甜」移到「氣味變濃」，就長出這一族。

ripe (cheese, aged) · adjective · B2

Ripe cheese has been kept long enough to have a strong, full taste and is now ready to eat.

（起司）熟成的

原始詞典資料17 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

RIPEnoun

  • 1

    A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).

Ripename

  • 1

    A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

ripeadj詞源 1/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

    • ripe grain
    • ripe apples
  • 2

    Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.

    • ripe cheese
    • ripe wine
  • 3

    Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.

    • He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
    • And so may Place retain us still, ⁠And he the much-beloved again, ⁠A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]
  • 4

    archaicOf a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.

  • 5

    Ready for action or effect; prepared.

    • while things were just ripe for a war
    • I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
  • 6

    Of a person, ready, willing, eager.

    • I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!
  • 7

    Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

    • Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
    • He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.
  • 8

    obsoleteIntoxicated.

    • Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lawOf a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.

    • Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
  • 10

    Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

    • His Majesty [a purple emperor butterfly] has rather peculiar tastes for so elegant a being. You just hang a piece of decidedly ripe meat anywhere near.
    • Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.

ripenoun詞源 1/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleA fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

    • When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.

ripeverb詞源 1/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    To ripen or mature.

    • […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]

ripenoun詞源 2/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    The bank of a river.

ripeverb詞源 3/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo search; to rummage.

ripeadj詞源 4/ɹaɪp/

  • 1

    Rife

    • The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。