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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- 'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.'
-- So she stayed on with Mother Holle for some time, and 123then she began to grow unhappy.
-- And so the little girl really did grow up; her skin was as white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as the blood, and her hair as black as ebony; and she was called Snowdrop.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.
-- 'The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insup-portable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the com-mon practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred maj-esty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the 82 Gulliver's Travelsformal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- It had a cock near the bottom to let out the water, when it began to grow stale; and two ser-vants could easily fill it in half an hour.
-- And he gave it for his opinion, 'that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of poli-ticians put together.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of Rachael, how young when they were first brought together in these circumstances, how mature now, how soon to grow old.
-- He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quiet path for him and how he had sometimes seen a shade of melancholy on her blessed face, that smote him with remorse and despair.
-- Mr. Bounderby would have seen you grow up under his eyes, to very little purpose, if he could so far forget what is due to your good sense, not to say to his, as to address you from any such ground.
-- It afforded Mr. Bounderby supreme satisfaction to instal himself in this snug little estate, and with demonstrative humility to grow cabbages in the flower-garden.
-- Keep it quiet, and the thieves will grow in confidence by little and little, and we shall have 'em.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To prove the excellent Hardwigg's impatience, I solemnly declare that when the flowers in the drawing-room pots began to grow, he rose every morning at four o'clock to make them grow quicker by pulling the leaves!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He didn't die, and the bits seemed to grow together again.
-- That's how the quiet little girls grow up, though you're only a quiet little girl even now, in spite of the illustrated pa-pers.
-- It showed already, but perhaps it would grow out of it.
-- Place any child among the ruling classes, and he will grow up, to his own extent, a ruler.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, there's more to do than there used to be, and the Works are enough for me as I grow older.
-- When you think of me at all, John, let it only be as the child you have seen grow up in the prison with one set of duties always occupying her; as a weak, retired, contented, unprotected girl.
-- Faithful to him still, as in the worst times through which she had borne him single-handed, she drove the thought away; and entertained no harder reflection, in her tearful unrest, than that he now saw everything through their wealth, and through the care he always had upon him that they should continue rich, and grow richer.
-- He looked confusedly about him, and, becoming conscious of the number of faces by which he was surrounded, addressed them:'Ladies and gentlemen, the duty ha devolves upon me of hum welcoming you to the Marshalsea!Welcome to the Marshalsea!The space is ha limited limited the parade might be wider; but you will find it apparently grow larger after a time a time, ladies and gentlemen and the air is, all things considered, very good.
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