Add to this the miners' finds of tree- and rootlike veins of metals and alchemists understandably concluded that metals must be not only growing underground, but ripening. Hadn't twined ores of silver and lead been found? Might not the lead be halfway to a mature state of silverdom? Surely there was a way to keep the disinterred metal root balls sprouting in the lab, coaxing their fruit to full succulent ripeness as the noblest of metals — lead into silver, copper to gold?
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But the pear-shaped pods of this West African tree can deliver a deadly bite if eaten prior to ripening.
但是,如果你在它成熟之前就把这种西非果树上结出的梨形豆荚状水果吃下肚,它将给会你致命的一击。
But Harvest is now ripening and looming... and God wants the best to spring forth!
但现在是庄稼成熟,隐约可见之时……而神要涌现出最好的!
Catherine, we would fain have deluded yet: but her own quick spirit refused to delude her: it divined in secret, and brooded on the dreadful probability, gradually ripening into certainty.
我们还想瞒住凯瑟琳;但她的机灵可是骗不过她自己;她暗自揣度着,深思着那可怕的可能性,而那可能性已渐渐地成熟为必然性了。
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