(noun.) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.
杰拉尔丁校对
双语例句
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.
The peaches are ripening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
On the contrary, the conditions for its acceptance had been ripening fast. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.