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ripe for the capture

成熟到可以奪取了 / 唾手可得

`ripe` 原意是(水果)成熟的,引申為「時機成熟、準備好被利用或奪取」。這裡形容一片土地豐饒,時機成熟,很容易被攻佔。

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.
ripe for the capture — HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S01E01 · ReelWord