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单词 the time is ripe
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(when) the time is ripe
a. Of time: sufficiently advanced, esp. for a particular action or purpose. Frequently in (when) the time is ripe.
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a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cviii. 122 He seith that word, when full rype tyme shold come.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 288 I by letters shall direct your course When time is ripe . View more context for this quotation
1682 J. Banks Vertue Betray'd i i. i. 22 They By Letters and Devices in their absence Have hourly plotted to deceive you, Sir; And put in practice when the time is ripe.
1721 J. Mottley Antiochus iii. i. 31 Confine Arsaces strait, till Time is ripe To make thy Proofs appear.
1791 S. J. Pratt Fair Circassian ii. ii. 22 Now the time is ripe To note thy subject services more amply.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 210 The man..was a noble type Appearing ere the times were ripe . View more context for this quotation
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire ii. 21 The great scheme for whose accomplishment the time was now ripe.
1908 Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 4/7 The time is ripe..for the pressman to reap a little of the benefits of the better times which are coming to Australia.
1958 J. Kerouac Let. 28 Oct. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 160 The situation about Tuttle etc. and Grove I just dont [sic] understand but let me know when time is ripe.
2005 P. R. Keefe Chatter ix. 211 The Bush administration and its allies were effectively betting the farm on persuading the international community that the time was ripe to depose Saddam Hussein.
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