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小词详解 | rife
rife 英 [raɪf] 美 [raɪf]
Child marriage, once rife, is ebbing.
曾经盛行的童婚习俗正在消退。
——《经济学人》The political world is rife with brutality cascades. Let’s say you are a normal person who gets into Congress. You’d rather not spend all your time fund-raising. You’d like to be civil to your opponents and maybe even work out some compromises. But you find yourself competing against opponents who fund-raise all the time, who prefer brutalism to civility and absolutism to compromise. Pretty soon you must follow their norms to survive.
政界充斥着野蛮连锁效应。比如,假设你是一名当选议员的正常人。你不想把全部时间花在筹款上,你想文明地对待对手,有可能的话甚至做出一些妥协。但是,你发现自己的竞争对手整天都在筹款,比起文明和妥协来,他们更喜欢野蛮和专制。时间不长,你就发现,为了生存,你必须遵守他们的准则。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] (尤指不受欢迎或有害的东西)盛行;普遍存在
在他的四年总统任期内,那个国家腐败成风。
Corruption in that country was rife during his four-year tenure as President.痢疾和疟疾在难民营肆虐。
Dysentery and malaria are rife in the refugee camps.
办公室里恶毒的谣言层出不穷。
The office was rife with vicious gossip.她那站不住脚的借口错误百出。
Her feeble excuse was rife with error.
The nature of that prophecy is unknown, although speculation is rife that it concerns Harry Potter, the only person ever known to have survived the Killing Curse, and who is also known to have been at the Ministry on the night in question.
那个预言球的内容不明,不过人们纷纷猜测与哈利·波特有关,他是人们所知的惟一从杀戮咒中生还之人,而且据说事发那天夜里他也在魔法部。
pandemic: (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world pervasive: (especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people rampant: (especially of something unwelcome or unpleasant) flourishing or spreading unchecked