2019-08-22 -ridden

[definition]

adj后缀, full of something unpleasant or bad.

充斥着……的

= full of something, to contain a lot of something.

前面的名词一般是有负向含义的词,比如debt/scandal/conflict/crime/superstition等。

[sentence]

1. The movie is cliche-ridden and full of plot holes.

2. Such inns as there were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.

flea-ridden 有许多跳蚤,类似的,有很多蚊子/黑社会/骗子:mosquito/mafia/fraud-ridden.

3. Yet with many hailing from poor or conflict-ridden African nations such as Sierra Leone and Cameroon, refugees agencies point out that they have every right to seek asylum in Australia.

4. The country is not quite repeating its own crisis-ridden history. Argentina today has a reformist government largely intent on doing the right thing, rather than the populist administrations that blighted its recent past.

[practice]

这家债台高筑的公司开始把目光聚焦到海外业务。

The debt-ridden company is starting to focus on its overseas business.

The debt-ridden firm is starting to shift its focus to overseas operations.

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