0 If something unpleasant is rife, it is very common or happens a lot. -- （指不良事物）盛行的；流行的；普遍的
Corruption has not only been rife but is openly practised by all politicians of all parties.
High wartime profits were particularly rife among food suppliers, raising suspicions of speculation.
Although this is an extreme example, bad performance is rife in studies of adult concept learning.
Cognitive science is rife with ideas that offend our intuitions.
Accordingly, he speculates that pivotlessness should be rife among morphologically ergative languages.
The motif of the wall is rife with mystical associations that will be discussed below.
The story that resides in this evidence is rife with compelling affirmations of his welldeserved acclaim.
Moreover, natural language is rife with constructions that depend crucially on differences between assumed speaker and hearer knowledge.
