grow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 生长， 成长； 渐渐变成； 栽培， 种植； 发展，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she died I believe broken-hearted having never slackened her un-availing search for your father, she left you, at two years old, to grow to be blooming, beautiful, and happy, without the dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison, or wasted there through many lingering years.'
-- The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.
-- Whether it was a daughter who would grow to be a wom-an.'
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
-- And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity un-der conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To grow and grow, to get older and be tall,' thought the Tree 'that, after all, is the most delightful thing in the world!'
-- Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is stand-ing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.
-- The most wonderful fairy tales grow out of that which is reality; were that not the case, you know, my mag-nificent Elderbush could not have grown out of the tea-pot.'
-- The bur-dock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delight-fulness is snails' food.
-- 'I am His garden-er, I take all His flowers and trees, and plant them out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land; but how they grow there, and how it is there I dare not tell thee.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here people purposely let their nails grow as long as they will, and link on small saucers by way of studs, so that they can do nothing with their hands."
-- Her husband might put her to shame and turn her out, Vronsky might grow cold to her and go on living his own life apart (she thought of him again with bitterness and reproach); she could not leave her son.
-- The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself--death.
-- In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former days the free-thinker was a man who had been brought up in ideas of religion, law, and morality, and only through conflict and struggle came to free-thought; but now there has sprung up a new type of born free-thinkers who grow up without even having heard of principles of morality or of religion, of the existence of authorities, who grow up directly in ideas of negation in everything, that is to say, savages.
-- Another feeling, even stronger, impelled him as quickly as possible to smooth over the rupture without letting it grow greater.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as he approached them, his project, which at first had seemed so simple, began to grow more and more formidable to his mind.
-- The wind, however, did not grow as boisterous as might have been feared; it was not one of those tempests which burst, and rush on with a speed of ninety miles an hour.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I want you to grow up and listen to reason."
-- He was beginning to grow slightly bald, slightly plump.
-- II Max Gottlieb's wife was thick and slow-moving and mute; at sixty she had not learned to speak easy English; and her German was of the small-town bourgeois, who pay their debts and over-eat and grow red.
-- For years she had seemed content to grow her roses, to make her startling hats, to almond-cream her lovely hands, and listen to her husband's improper stories--and for years she had been a lonely woman.
-- Calmed by rum swizzles, those tart and commanding aperitifs which are made in their deadly perfection only by the twirling swizzle- sticks of the darkies at the Ice House bar, the exiles become peaceful, and have another swizzle, and grow certain again (as for twenty-four hours, since the last cocktail-hour, they have not been certain) that next year they will go Home.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her hair had be-gun to grow grey and thin, there had long been little crow's foot wrinkles round her eyes, her cheeks were hollow and sunken from anxiety and grief, and yet it was a handsome face.
-- This conjecture had begun to grow strong the day before, in the midst of all his alarm and despair.
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