growing

adj.

1. 增加的；增长的；增强的
   increasing in size, amount or degree
   1. A growing number of people are returning to full-time education.
      越来越多的人重返学校接受全日制教育。
   2. one of the country's fastest growing industries
      这个国家增长最快的行业之一
   3. There is growing concern over the safety of the missing teenager.
      人们对这个失踪少年的安全越来越担心。

1. VERB 生长；长大；发育
   When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
   1. We stop growing at maturity.
      我们成年之后不再长个儿。
2. VERB 成活；生长
   If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.
   1. The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
      车站月台的两头种着玫瑰花。
3. VERB 栽种；种植
   If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
   1. I always grow a few red onions...
      我总是喜欢种一些红洋葱。
   2. Lettuce was grown by the Ancient Romans.
      古罗马人最先种植莴苣。
4. VERB （毛发、指甲等）变长
   When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.
   1. 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。
5. VERB 留长（头发或指甲）；蓄（胡须）
   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.
   1. I'd better start growing my hair.
      我最好开始留头发。
6. VERB 成长；长大；成熟
   If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
   1. They began to grow as persons.
      他们开始长大成人了。
7. V-LINK 变得；变成；长成
   You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
   1. I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
      我开始有些害怕隔壁的那个家伙。
   2. He's growing old...
      他渐渐变老了。
   3. He grew to love his work.
      他开始喜欢上他的工作了。
8. VERB 增加；增强；增大
   If an amount, feeling, or problem grows, it becomes greater or more intense.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. ...a growing number of immigrants.
      日益增长的移民数量
9. VERB 成长为；发展为
   If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
   1. The boys grew into men...
      这些男孩子长成了男子汉。
   2. 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。
10. VERB （观点、计划等）产生于，源于
    If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.
    1. 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。
11. VERB （经济或公司）增长，扩大，发展
    If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.
    1. The economy continues to grow.
       经济持续发展。
    2. ...a fast growing business.
       迅速发展的企业
12. VERB 扩大，壮大，发展（公司等）
    If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance.
    1. 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。
13. V-ERG （晶体）产生；使（晶体）形成
    If a crystal grows, or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.
    1. ...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
       岩石洞穴中形成的水晶
    2. 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。
14. See also: grown

Be careful not to confuse the verbs grow up and bring up. Grow up is an intransitive verb, and describes the process of becoming an adult. I grew up in rural southern England. Bring up is a transitive verb, and describes the process of looking after and socializing a child. ...we both felt the town was the perfect place to bring up a family. Note then, that parents do not 'grow up' their children, they 'bring them up'.
不要混淆grow up与bring up。grow up是不及物动词，描述长大成人的过程：I grew up in rural southern England（我在英格兰南部乡村长大）。bring up是及物动词，描述的是养育孩子并使之适应社会的过程：We both felt the town was the perfect place to bring up a family（我们俩都觉得这个小镇是养儿育女的理想之地）。注意：父母养育子女不能说 grow up，只能说bring them up。

1. The move follows growing public concern over the spread of the disease
   针对公众对该疾病的不断蔓延日益担忧，从而出台了这一举措。
2. The growing number of people seeking refuge in Thailand is beginning to concern Western aid agencies
   到泰国寻求庇护的人日益增多，这开始引起了西方援助机构的不安。
3. The developed nations have to recognize the growing gap between rich and poor around the world
   发达国家必须认识到世界范围内的贫富差距正在不断扩大。
4. There's growing disenchantment with the Government.
   大家对政府的幻想渐渐破灭了。
5. There is growing evidence that the economy is at last emerging from recession.
   有越来越多的证据表明经济终于开始摆脱萧条。
6. Growing up with him soon made me realise the extent of his determination
   和他一起长大让我很快意识到他有多么坚定。
7. Greater demands were being placed on the police by growing violence and left-and right-wing extremism.
   暴力事件和左右翼极端主义日益猖獗，这对警方提出了更高的要求。
8. The bill might have gone through if the economy was growing.
   要是当时经济在增长的话，该法案或许也就获得通过了。
9. He's growing old
   他渐渐变老了。
10. There's some sympathy for this new country's growing pains, but that sympathy is fast wearing out.
    一些人对这个新国家建国初期遇到的困难表示同情，但是那种同情很快就消失了。
11. Europe's software companies still have a growing home market.
    欧洲软件公司的国内市场仍在增长中。
12. Can the human race carry on expanding and growing the same way that it is now?
    人类能继续像目前这样扩张和增长下去吗？
13. The growing problem is underlined in the latest issue of the Lancet
    最近一期的《柳叶刀》杂志中强调了这一日益严重的问题。
14. Political life has been infected by growing nationalist sentiment.
    政治生活已受到了不断高涨的民族主义情绪的影响。
15. It is Britain's fastest growing national daily newspaper
    这是英国发展最快的全国性日报社。
16. Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
    越来越多生活在乡下的人被吓得不敢投票了。
17. You are all fortunate to be growing up in a time of peace and plenty.
    你们都很幸运，成长在和平富足的时代。
18. There have been growing signs of a rapprochement with Vietnam.
    同越南恢复友好关系的迹象越来越明显了。
19. A survey of the British diet has revealed that a growing number of people are overweight
    对英国人饮食进行的一项调查显示有越来越多的人超重。
20. The interview reflected a growing rift between the President and the government
    这段采访反映了总统和政府之间的裂痕越来越大。
21. He's found growing sentiment for military action.
    他发现支持采取军事行动的情绪日益高涨。
22. I find the media's growing obsession with smut and sensation deplorable.
    我发现媒体越来越沉湎于淫秽下流和耸人听闻的题材，这实在可悲。
23. Swift said the growing sophistication among biotech investors presented an opportunity for a more specialist investment fund.
    斯威夫特说，生物科技领域的投资人越来越精明了，这也为我们获得一个更专业的投资基金提供了机会。
24. This is a growing trend.
    这是日益显著的趋势。
25. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.
    田野里和荒地上会疯长蓍草。
26. Mustard is grown in the field when weeds are there, rather than when the growing crops are there.
    芥菜要在地里长杂草而不是长庄稼时种植。
27. This kind of soil is not suitable for growing peanuts.
    这种土壤不宜种花生。
28. Our foreign population is growing.
    外来人口在增长。
29. This area is most suitable for growing wheat.
    这一带最适宜种小麦。

noun

1. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

2. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
   1. he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children

   Synonym:    growthmaturationdevelopmentontogenyontogenesis

adj

1. relating to or suitable for growth
   1. the growing season for corn
   2. good growing weather