今天我们要学的词是ridden. Ridden是形容词，意思是“满是的”，通常跟在名词的后面。比如，debt ridden就是负债累累的意思。In a move that wasted $1.2 million in printing costs, the already debt-ridden U.S. Postal Service produced 1 billion "The Simpsons" stamps but sold only 318 million. 本已负债累累的美国邮政局又浪费了120万美元的印刷费，因为邮局印了十亿张“辛普森家庭”的邮票，但只卖掉了三亿一千八百万张。今年夏天美国旱情严重，Oil companies drilling in drought-ridden Kansas are taking desperate measures to get the water they need to tap into the state's oil reserves. 在干旱频发的堪萨斯州钻井的各石油公司想尽办法寻找水源，以开采那里的石油储备。好的，今天我们学习的词是ridden, ridden, ridden...