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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And something might grow up from that seed.
-- But I wonder shall I in those fifteen or twenty years grow so meek that I shall humble myself before people and whimper at ev-ery word that I am a criminal?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggottyseemed to swell and grow immensely large.
-- It had begun to grow dark, and I had shut the window (I had beenlying, for the most part, with my head upon the sill, by turnscrying, dozing, and looking listlessly out), when the key wasturned, and Miss Murdstone came in with some bread and meat,and milk.
-- I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, afterseeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began tocome towards us, and to grow and grow.
-- 'Our little friends grow up around us.
-- I recollect,as the wind and water began to sound fainter in my ears, putting ashort clause into my prayers, petitioning that I might grow up tomarry little Em'ly, and so dropping lovingly asleep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.'
-- She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.
-- Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of conse-quence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs. Goddard's all the rest of her life or, at least, (for Har-riet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other,) till she grow desperate, and is glad to catch at the old writing-master's son.'
-- how shall you employ yourself when you grow old?'
-- Little Emma, grow up a better woman than your aunt.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crocuses and hyacinths were to grow in rows; some of the summer flowers he placed over her head and feet, the lilies and forget-me-nots over her heart.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own sit-uation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, he's waiting for you to grow up!"
-- Why did it grow so fast?
-- "As to why I have made no further advances," he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that theconversation was at an end, "I'm waiting for you to grow up a little more.
-- He should have lived and seen hisgrandchild grow up and died peacefully in bed.
-- But how to explain thisfeeling that made her hands shake and the pit of her stomach grow cold?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Havisham would often ask me in a whisper, or when we were alone, "Does she grow prettier and prettier, Pip?"
-- --At the back, there's a pig, and there are fowls and rabbits; then, I knock together my own little frame, you see, and grow cucumbers; and you'll judge at supper what sort of a salad I can raise.
-- There was something so remarkable in the increasing glare of Mr. Wopsle's eye, and he seemed to be turning so many things over in his mind and to grow so confused, that I could not make it out.
-- Ah!Had I given Joe no reason to doubt my constancy, and to think that in prosperity I should grow cold to him and cast him off?
-- Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don't tell him, Biddy, that I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him that I honored you both, because you were both so good and true, and that, as your child, I said it would be natural to him to grow up a much better man than I did."
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