Ripen

(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'.

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• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man, and will ripen our food. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Things will grow and ripen as if it were a comet year, said Will. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They are ripening fast. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I see trees laden with ripening fruit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Even in the ripening of fruits heat appears to him to h ave a cooking effect. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Obstacles were a ripening sun to his love, and he was at this moment in a delirium of exquisite misery. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• 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. 威尔基·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. 雪莉.
• Culture means at least something cultivated, something ripened; it is opposed to the raw and crude. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

编辑:维尔玛