grows

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v.  扩大; 增加; 增强; 长大; 长高; 发育; 成长; (使)生长
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  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

    15. 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。

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双语例句

  1. A child's awareness of being an individual grows in stages during the pre-school years.
    孩子的个体意识在入学前的几年中逐渐增强。
  2. A man is deliberately designed to be mortal. He grows, he ages, and he dies.
    人注定终有一死：长大、衰老，然后消亡。
  3. He doesn't want to live in the country when he grows up, nor does he want to live in the city.
    他长大后不想住在乡下，也不想住在城里。
  4. As your baby grows bigger, his bones become less pliable
    随着宝宝的成长，其骨骼的柔韧性会降低。
  5. The rate at which hair grows can be agonisingly slow
    头发生长的速度可能极其缓慢。
  6. A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
    一条长长的茎秆的每个节上都会长出一朵浅蓝色的花。
  7. As the ice sheet grows and thickens it chills the nearby air.
    随着冰盖越来越大，越来越厚，周围的空气也冷了起来。
  8. As her confidence grows you may well see a considerable turnabout in her attitude.
    随着她自信心的增强，你很可能会看到她的态度有相当大的转变。
  9. Jenny weaves baskets from willow she grows herself.
    珍妮用她自己种的柳树的枝条编篮子。
  10. The night grows late.
    夜深了。
  11. This flower grows on a hilly area.
    这种花生长在山地上。
  12. When a person grows old, his skin shrivels.
    人老了，皮肤就变得干巴了。
  13. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
    枪杆子里面出政权。
  14. Anything grows in this fertile ground.
    这片肥沃的土地上长什么都行。
  15. This kind of rose grows wild.
    这种玫瑰是野生的。
  16. This kind of grass grows apace.
    这种草长得很快。
  17. Just silent hopes remain& the aching grief that grows.
    留下的只有静静的期许和不断蔓延的疼痛的悲伤。
  18. The chestnut grows well.
    这棵栗树长得很好。
  19. The French bean in the garden grows fast.
    园子里的菜豆长得很快。
  20. He grows cabbages on his farm.
    他在他的农场种植包心菜。
  21. As one grows old, one tends to become garrulous.
    人老了，就爱唠叨。
  22. Tom wants to be a coach when he grows up.
    汤姆长大了以后想当教练。
  23. She grows upon you when you get used to her.
    等你跟她相处惯了，你就会喜欢她。
  24. The root grows down.
    根向下长。
  25. Her son often says he will join up when he grows up.
    她的儿子经常说他长大了要去参军。
  26. One becomes fond of comfort as he grows old.
    人年纪大了，就变得喜欢安逸。
  27. The tree grows well in his nurture.
    在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
  28. Region economy and Commerce collectivize are one of fundamental trends that current world economy grows.
    区域经济和贸易集团化是当今世界经济发展的重要趋势之一。
  29. The plant grows to a length of three or four metres.
    这种植物长到三、四米长。
  30. As a language grows, new words are introduced and many words fall out of use.
    随着语言的发展，新词出现了，同时也有许多词被废弃不用了。
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