| 单词 | ripen |
| 释义 | ripen (once / 736 pages) v When fruit becomes ripe and ready to eat, it ripens. Tomatoes will ripen after you pick them, becoming darker red and more juicy. You can use ripen to talk about the maturing process of all fruits, and some vegetables — apples, peppers, and corn all need to ripen before they're at the perfect, delicious state for being eaten. Figuratively, you can also talk about people this way: "She is really starting to ripen as an actor!" Before ripen was coined around 1560, the verb was ripe, as in, "When the avocados ripe, I'll make guacamole." WORD FAMILYripen: ripened, ripening, ripens+/ripe: overripe, ripely, ripen, ripeness, riper, ripest, unripe/ripened: unripened/unripe: unripely, unripest USAGE EXAMPLESIs he waiting for you to ripen further? The Guardian(Dec 15, 2016) Another effort to alter that trade-off is SmartFresh, a product developed with Professor Watkin’s research that keeps apples from ripening too quickly in storage. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) A little over 44 percent of the products — some sold directly by Amazon, others by third parties — were billed as discounted, Ripen said. New York Times(Apr 13, 2016) 1v grow ripe The plums ripen in July Hyper grow, maturate, mature develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation 2v cause to ripen or develop fully The sun ripens the fruit Syn|Hyper mature alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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