Rife

(a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

(a.) Having power; active; nimble.

录入:卢

• For two weeks no word has come back from them, but rumours were rife that they had met with a terrible disaster and that all were dead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Death, waste, hunger, and disease are very rife to-day; the world is full of physical evils, but there is this mental awakening to set against them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mrs. Helstone was hardly under the sod when rumours began to be rife in the neighbourhood that she had died of a broken heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As in all Southern mansions hospitality was rife at the Greenes’, and it happened that one evening a number of gentlemen were gathered there who had fought under the General in the Revolution. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A strange story was rife here. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Such symptoms, when a disease of the kind is rife, are usually the signs of sickening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• So rife and potent was the fever in Bleeding Heart Yard, that Mr Pancks's rent-days caused no interval in the patients. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The claim thus made goes back to the period when all was war, and when dispute was hot and rife as to the actual invention of the telephone. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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