| 词汇 | rife |
| 释义 | rife adjective[ after verb ] formaluk /raɪf/ us /raɪf/ If something unpleasant is rife, it is very common or happens a lot: （指不良事物）盛行的；流行的；普遍的 Dysentery and malaria are rife in the refugee camps.痢疾和疟疾在难民营肆虐。 happening or seen often commonWorking from home has become increasingly common. rifeViolence was rife throughout the city. commonplaceEarthquakes are a commonplace occurrence in California. be two/ten a pennyUK Good designers are two a penny, but great designers are worth their weight in gold. be a dime a dozenUS Those cheap little metal cars are a dime a dozen. You can get them anywhere. rife with something full of something unpleasant: 充满；充斥 The office was rife with rumours.办公室里谣言层出不穷。 Plain and ordinary as it comesidiom austere austerely austerity average Joe homespun homey humble humdrum middle-of-the-road sparely spartan stale starkly starkness unostentatious unostentatiously unpainted unremarkable unremarkably rife | American Dictionaryrife adjective[ not gradable ] us/rɑɪf/ (of something unpleasant) very common or frequent: Graft and corruption were rife in city government. If a place is rife with something unpleasant, it is full of it: The office is rife with rumors that many of us will be fired. Examples of riferife Corruption has not only been rife but is openly practised by all politicians of all parties. High wartime profits were particularly rife among food suppliers, raising suspicions of speculation. Although this is an extreme example, bad performance is rife in studies of adult concept learning. Cognitive science is rife with ideas that offend our intuitions. Accordingly, he speculates that pivotlessness should be rife among morphologically ergative languages. The motif of the wall is rife with mystical associations that will be discussed below. The story that resides in this evidence is rife with compelling affirmations of his welldeserved acclaim. Moreover, natural language is rife with constructions that depend crucially on differences between assumed speaker and hearer knowledge. Considering where the camp was situated, it was no surprise that disease was rife, particularly malaria and dysentery. 704 exposed to criticism communicated between their parents, resulting in a family emotional climate rife with negativity across relationships. Even where lordly interference was minimal and rents and fines were low, moreover, ' engrossment and social polarisation were rife ' (p. 309). Although these findings enjoy considerable theoretical and intuitive appeal, research on individual differences in rates of political participation is hardly rife with attention to extroversion. The disadvantage of implicit semantics is that they are rife with ambiguity. In effect, this extends the range of their professional gaze of social control into the private realm, rife with crime and corruption. In the absence of firm guidance from game theory, speculation has been rife in the theoretical literature on the commons; some, empirically dubious. See all examples of rife These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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