ripen
要点熟する、熟させる
意味
- 〈果物・時機などが〉熟する,〈人などが〉成熟する
- …を熟させる,成熟させる
例文
The farmer longs for the day when the grain ripens.
その農民は稲が実る日を待ち望んでいる。
Their friendship ripened into a deep love.
彼らの友情は深い愛情に発展した。
These fruits, they are over ripening so let's eat them quickly.
このフルーツ、熟れ過ぎているから早く食べてしまおう。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).