| 词组 | ripe old age |
| 释义 | Idiom ripe old age Theme: AGE - OLD a very old age.Mr. Smith died last night, but he lived to a ripe old age—99.All the Smiths seem to reach a ripe old age. ripe old ageA very old age. Even at the ripe old age of 90, my grandmother still loves to go shopping. All I want at the end of my life is to die at a ripe old age surrounded by my family. ripe old agea very old age. Mr. Smith died last night, but he lived to a ripe old age—99. All the Smiths seem to reach a ripe old age. ripe old ageAn age advanced in years, as in I expect to live to a ripe old age. The adjective ripe here means "fully developed physically and mentally," but the current use of the idiom usually just signifies a long lifespan. [Second half of 1300s] ripe old ageAdvanced in years, quite old. This expression is itself of a ripe old age—it dates from the second half of the fourteenth century—and is generally used in a positive, admiring sense.W. Somerset Maugham used it in Creatures of Circumstance (1947): “. . . little house in the country where he could potter about till death claimed him at a ripe old age.” |
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