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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
-- 'Go thou down quickly to the men's huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Ba-loo or those of the Pack that love thee.
-- They grow tired of the nuts they pick, and throw them down.
-- Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can't be wrong.
-- 'What you must do,' said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son's adventures, 'is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was less-ened, as the cooler vapors of the springs and fountains rose above their leafy beds, and rested in the atmosphere.
-- 'Does not this stream at our feet run toward the summer, until its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?'
-- 'Friend,' he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand toward Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twin-kled and grew moist, 'I thank thee that the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence; for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curl-ing, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter.
-- 'See, and judge with your own eyes,' said the scout, ad-vancing toward the eastern brow of the mountain, whither he beckoned for the whole party to follow; 'if it was as easy to look into the heart of man as it is to spy out the naked-ness of Montcalm's camp from this spot, hypocrites would grow scarce, and the cunning of a Mingo might prove a los-ing game, compared to the honesty of a Delaware.'
-- 'When a man consort much with a people,' continued Hawkeye, 'if they were honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would grow old insensibly; they would see their son and daughter come to years of reason, marry in due course the one a pretty girl, future mother of healthy children; the other a handsome, manly fellow, obviously a soldier; and at last, prosperous in their dignified retirement, beloved by their descendants, after a happy, not unuseful life, in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave.
-- The affair seemed to grow more complicated, and the Colonel, with his expletives and his indignation, confused rather than informed me.
-- It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
-- It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognises its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance that love will follow.
-- I felt my cheeks grow red with sudden anger.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this forest was only composed of coniferae, such as deodaras, already recognized by Herbert, and Douglas pine, similar to those which grow on the northwest coast of America, and splendid firs, measuring a hundred and fifty feet in height.
-- The flaring torches began to grow dim.
-- There is what will make us handkerchiefs and shirts!Ha, ha, Mr. Spilett, what do you say to an island where shirts grow on the trees?"
-- He will soon grow fond of his masters if they are kind to him."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented, and had more than once suggested the propriety of an immediate departure, when the door opened, and the child herself appeared.
-- At length, the day began to glimmer, and the stars to grow pale and dim.
-- 'To forget them!How are we ever to grow rich if I forget them?'
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