SAT GRE
外刊例句
- 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》
基本释义
[adjective] (especially of something undesirable or harmful) of common occurrence; widespread
[形容词] （尤指不受欢迎或有害的东西）盛行；普遍存在
深入解读
Rife 是一个与 life, wife, fife （小横笛，用于军乐中与鼓合奏）仅首字母不同的单词，源自古北欧语 rifr （丰富的、充足的），现主要表示“盛行的、普遍的”，通常用于形容坏事或不良事物普遍流行，强调传播迅速或数量急剧增大，比如：
- 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.
当某种坏事盛行的时候，往往也就意味着它到处都是，因此 rife 很自然地就被用来引申指“充斥、充满（坏事）”，常用 rife with sth 表达，比如：
- 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.
值得注意的是， rife 很容易与 rifle （步枪、来复枪；快速翻找、搜寻）相混淆，在阅读写作时要小心区别。
名著用例
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。
出自英国作家J.K.罗琳创作的长篇小说《哈利·波特与混血王子》（Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince）。该小说是《哈利·波特》系列的第六部。
常见短语
“rife”通常用来表示普遍的、盛行的、充满的等含义，常用来描述某种现象或情况非常普遍或广泛存在。
以下是50个包含单词“rife”的短语，以及它们的中文解释：
- rife with rumors: 充满谣言
- rife with challenges: 充满挑战
- rife with opportunities: 充满机会
- rife with uncertainty: 充满不确定性
- rife with problems: 充满问题
- rife with contradictions: 充满矛盾
- rife with excitement: 充满兴奋
- rife with potential: 充满潜力
- rife with confusion: 充满困惑
- rife with difficulties: 充满困难
- rife with tension: 充满紧张
- rife with conflict: 充满冲突
- rife with controversy: 充满争议
- rife with possibilities: 充满可能性
- rife with issues: 充满问题
- rife with misinformation: 充满错误信息
- rife with challenges and opportunities: 充满挑战和机会
- rife with cultural diversity: 充满文化多样性
- rife with social issues: 充满社会问题
- rife with technological advancements: 充满技术进步
- rife with economic disparities: 充满经济差异
- rife with environmental concerns: 充满环境问题
- rife with health risks: 充满健康风险
- rife with political unrest: 充满政治动荡
- rife with educational opportunities: 充满教育机会
- rife with innovation: 充满创新
- rife with financial challenges: 充满财务挑战
- rife with cultural clashes: 充满文化冲突
- rife with natural resources: 充满自然资源
- rife with emotional turmoil: 充满情感纷扰
- rife with criminal activities: 充满犯罪活动
- rife with artistic expression: 充满艺术表达
- rife with technological breakthroughs: 充满技术突破
- rife with societal changes: 充满社会变革
- rife with global connections: 充满全球联系
- rife with challenges and opportunities: 充满挑战和机会
- rife with cultural diversity: 充满文化多样性
- rife with social issues: 充满社会问题
- rife with technological advancements: 充满技术进步
- rife with economic disparities: 充满经济差异
- rife with environmental concerns: 充满环境问题
- rife with health risks: 充满健康风险
- rife with political unrest: 充满政治动荡
- rife with educational opportunities: 充满教育机会
- rife with innovation: 充满创新
- rife with financial challenges: 充满财务挑战
- rife with cultural clashes: 充满文化冲突
- rife with natural resources: 充满自然资源
- rife with emotional turmoil: 充满情感纷扰
- rife with criminal activities: 充满犯罪活动
同近义词
- 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
