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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was to be a governess; I became a governess; and went into the family of a poor nobleman, where there were two daughters little children, but the parents wished them to grow up, if possible, under one instructress.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster!It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and man-ners!I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
-- Your airs are funny now, but you'll grow up an affected little goose, if you don't take care.
-- But it will soon grow out again,' said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep.
-- He tried to climb over the hedge, but it seemed to grow higher and higher.
-- CHAPTER FOURTEENJo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
-- The sailors mark him; more and more certain grow their suspicions of him, and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to high Heaven, they fall to casting lots, to see for whose cause this great tempest was upon them.
-- Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
-- Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How should you like to grow up a clever man, and write books, eh?'
-- It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of sleeping infancy, and settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the Angel even upon earth.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.'
-- He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.'
-- At any rate, she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising us to lock her up for the rest of her life.'
-- But I have always ob-served, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after I saw barley grow there, in a climate which I knew was not proper for corn, and especially that I knew not how it came there, it startled me strangely, and I began to suggest that God had miraculously caused His grain to grow with-out any help of seed sown, and that it was so directed purely for my sustenance on that wild, miserable place.
-- This touched my heart a little, and brought tears out of my eyes, and I began to bless myself that such a prodigy of nature should happen upon my account; and this was the more strange to me, because I saw near it still, all along by the side of the rock, some other straggling stalks, which proved to be stalks of rice, and which I knew, because I had seen it grow in Africa when I was ashore there.
-- While I sat thus, I found the air overcast and grow cloudy, as if it would rain.
-- I was surprised, and yet very well pleased, to see the young trees grow; and I pruned them, and led them up to grow as much alike as I could; and it is scarce credible how beautiful a figure they grew into in three years; so that though the hedge made a circle of about twenty-five yards in diameter, yet the trees, for such I might now call them, soon covered it, and it was a complete shade, sufficient to lodge under all the dry season.
-- I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying; I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of: there were no rivals; I had no competitor, none to dis-pute sovereignty or command with me: I might have raised ship-loadings of corn, but I had no use for it; so I let as little grow as I thought enough for my occasion.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, wearied by her own reflections, she began to grow dull in her chair, and feeling the need of sleep, arranged her clothing for the night and went to bed.
-- One of those forlorn impulses which often grow out of a fixed sense of defeat, the last sprouting of a baffled and uprooted growth of ideas, seized upon her.
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