rife是什么意思，rife怎么用
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📰 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》
—— 《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：
Corruption in that country was rife during his four-year tenure as President.在他的四年总统任期内，那个国家腐败成风。
Dysentery and malaria are rife in the refugee camps.痢疾和疟疾在难民营肆虐。
The office was rife with vicious gossip.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。
Her feeble excuse was rife with error.她那站不住脚的借口错误百出。
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。》
🔍 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 so
