grow
v. 生长; 栽种; 变长; 成长; 变得; 增加; 发展,壮大; 提升品质
When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
We stop growing at maturity.
我们成年之后不再长个儿。
If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.
The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
车站月台的两头种着玫瑰花。
If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
I always grow a few red onions...
我总是喜欢种一些红洋葱。
Lettuce was grown by the Ancient Romans.
古罗马人最先种植莴苣。
When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.
Then the hair began to grow again and I felt terrific.
然后,头发又长起来了,我感觉棒极了。
If someone grows their hair, or grows a beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can also grow your nails.
I'd better start growing my hair.
我最好开始留头发。
If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
They began to grow as persons.
他们开始长大成人了。
You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
我开始有些害怕隔壁的那个家伙。
He's growing old...
他渐渐变老了。
If an amount, feeling, or problem grows, it becomes greater or more intense.
The number of unemployed people in Poland has grown by more than a quarter in the last month...
上个月,波兰的失业人数增长超过了1/4。
Opposition grew and the government agreed to negotiate.
反对的声音越来越高,政府只好同意进行谈判。
If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
The boys grew into men...
这些男孩子长成了男子汉。
This political row threatens to grow into a full blown crisis.
这场政治争端有可能演化成一场全面爆发的危机。
If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.
The idea for this book grew out of conversations with Philippa Brewster.
创作这本书的想法来源于跟菲莉帕·布鲁斯特的谈话。
If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.
The economy continues to grow.
经济持续发展。
...a fast growing business.
迅速发展的企业
If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance.
To grow the business, he needs to develop management expertise and innovation across his team.
为了拓展业务,他需要提高整个团队的管理技能和创新能力。
If a crystal grows, or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.
...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
岩石洞穴中形成的水晶
We tried to grow some copper sulphate crystals with our children.
我们想跟孩子们一起制作硫酸铜晶体。
1. pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;
2. become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain;
3. increase in size by natural process;
4. cause to grow or develop;
5. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;
6. come into existence; take on form or shape;
7. cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;
8. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);
9. grow emotionally or mature;
10. become attached by or as if by the process of growth;
become, get, grow, turn, go, come
这些动词均可表示"变成,成为"之意。
grow into
长成:发展而成为
逐渐适应:发展或变化以适应
grow on 或 grow upon
逐渐变得,显得
渐渐喜爱:逐渐变得令人愉快或使人接受
grow up
长大:变成成人
grow on trees
(非正式)(好像长在树上似的)伸手即可得到,极易得到
grow on
越来越被…喜爱
grow out
因正常生长而消失
grow out of
产生自…:由…而发展或形成
Coffee will not grow in a cold climate.
咖啡不能生长在寒冷的气候下.
We grow many different vegetables: potatoes, eggplant, etc.
我们种了许多不同的蔬菜,如土豆 、 茄子等.
It's natural for children to grow away from their family.
孩子们长大以后离开家庭是很自然的事.
As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
随着年龄的增长, 人们开始对生活的变化无常冥思苦想.
As we traveled together, we started to grow apart.
我们在一起旅行的时候产生了隔阂.