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ripe

/rˈaɪp/B1

成熟的 / 时机成熟的 (adj.)

原指果实成熟,这里引申为「易于夺取的、时机成熟的」。`ripe for the capture` 意思是这片富饶的土地已经万事俱备,只等去占领。

they tell us that Aegon looked across the Blackwater from Dragonstone,
saw a rich land ripe for the capture.
But ambition alone is not what drove him to conquest.