1. (水果、谷物等)成熟的
    Ripe fruit or grain is fully grown and ready to eat.

    e.g. Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.
           一定要挑選硬實但已成熟的水果。
    e.g. ...fields of ripe wheat.
           成熟的麥田

2. (時機)成熟的，適宜的
    If a situation is ripe for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon.

ripe

    e.g. Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera...
           霍亂即將暴發(fā)。
    e.g. This society is ripe for change.
           發(fā)生社會變革的時機已經(jīng)成熟。

3. (活到)高齡
    If someone lives to a ripe old age, they live until they are very old.

    e.g. He lived to the ripe old age of 95.
           他活到了95歲高齡。

4. 唾手可得;得到…易如反掌
    If something is ripe for picking or ripe for plucking, it will be very easy to obtain.

    e.g. Haig's message was that victory was ripe for picking.
           黑格傳達(dá)的意思是說勝利唾手可得。

5. 時機已經(jīng)成熟
    If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.

    e.g. He told reporters that he thought the time was ripe for a normalisation of relations...
           他告訴記者他認(rèn)為是時候恢復(fù)兩國間正常關(guān)系。
    e.g. The British Foreign Office has decided the time is ripe to send its first female ambassador to the region.
           英國外交部作出決定現(xiàn)在可以向該地區(qū)派駐第一位女大使。