grow
v. 生長; 栽種; 變長; 成長; 變得; 增加; 發展,壯大; 提升品質
When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
We stop growing at maturity.
我們成年之後不再長個兒。
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.
車站月臺的兩頭種著玫瑰花。
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...
我總是喜歡種一些紅洋蔥。
Lettuce was grown by the Ancient Romans.
古羅馬人最先種植萵苣。
When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.
Then the hair began to grow again and I felt terrific.
然後,頭髮又長起來了,我感覺棒極了。
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.
我最好開始留頭髮。
If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
They began to grow as persons.
他們開始長大成人了。
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...
我開始有些害怕隔壁的那個傢伙。
He's growing old...
他漸漸變老了。
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...
上個月,波蘭的失業人數增長超過了1/4。
Opposition grew and the government agreed to negotiate.
反對的聲音越來越高,政府只好同意進行談判。
If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
The boys grew into men...
這些男孩子長成了男子漢。
This political row threatens to grow into a full blown crisis.
這場政治爭端有可能演化成一場全面爆發的危機。
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.
創作這本書的想法來源於跟菲莉帕·布魯斯特的談話。
If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.
The economy continues to grow.
經濟持續發展。
...a fast growing business.
迅速發展的企業
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.
為了拓展業務,他需要提高整個團隊的管理技能和創新能力。
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.
我們想跟孩子們一起製作硫酸銅晶體。
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
這些動詞均可表示"變成,成為"之意。
grow into
長成:發展而成為
逐漸適應:發展或變化以適應
grow on 或 grow upon
逐漸變得,顯得
漸漸喜愛:逐漸變得令人愉快或使人接受
grow up
長大:變成成人
grow on trees
(非正式)(好像長在樹上似的)伸手即可得到,極易得到
grow on
越來越被…喜愛
grow out
因正常生長而消失
grow out of
產生自…:由…而發展或形成
Coffee will not grow in a cold climate.
咖啡不能生長在寒冷的氣候下.
We grow many different vegetables: potatoes, eggplant, etc.
我們種了許多不同的蔬菜,如土豆 、 茄子等.
It's natural for children to grow away from their family.
孩子們長大以後離開家庭是很自然的事.
As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
隨著年齡的增長, 人們開始對生活的變化無常冥思苦想.
As we traveled together, we started to grow apart.
我們在一起旅行的時候產生了隔閡.