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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a maxim with Mr Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense; and, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first they are uneasy, but afterward they even grow stout and become very quiet."
-- "May be it is necessary to lay the stones on the incline, but it is sad to see the soil deprived of vegetation when it could be made to grow grain, grass, shrubs and trees like those seen on those heights.
-- He tore open the envelope, and, seeing a letter from Selenin with some official document, he felt the blood mounting to his cheeks, and his heart grow weak.
-- He tore open the envelope, and, seeing a letter from Silenin with some official document, he felt the blood mounting to his cheeks, and his heart grow weak.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It occurred to me even then, that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter, and the nights grow dark, when the appearances of these unpleasant creatures from below, these whitened Lemurs, this new vermin that had replaced the old, might be more abundant.
-- But I said to myself, 'You are in for it now,' and, feeling my way along the tunnel, I found the noise of machinery grow louder.
-- The darkness seemed to grow luminous.
-- It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
-- "So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- I have said the captain was weak, and indeed he seemed rather to grow weaker than regain his strength.
-- At last the speakers seemed to have paused and perhaps to have sat down, for not only did they cease to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and to settle again to their places in the swamp.
-- Just about the same time, the sun had gone down behind the Spy-glass, and as the fog was collecting rapidly, it began to grow dark in earnest.
-- I could see nothing for the moment but these two furious, encrimsoned faces swaying together under the smoky lamp, and I shut my eyes to let them grow once more familiar with the darkness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In leaving this pearl hidden in the mantle of the tridacne he was allowing it to grow slowly.
-- Then Captain Nemo seemed to grow enormously, his features to assume superhuman proportions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But with a queer rumbling in her throat she resumed, "Hadn't they better be anything than grow up crippled, crippled in their souls, crippled in their feelings so thrown back so turned back on themselves incapable " Hermione clenched her fist like one in a trance "of any spontaneous action, always deliberate, always burdened with choice, never carried away."
-- No flowers grow upon busy machinery, there is no sky to a routine, there is no space to a rotary motion.
-- His soul was filled with her burning recognition, he seemed to grow more uppish and lordly.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.
-- "I've understood from Shielders"' (that was the curate, sir) '"that he lets her grow up in absolute heathenism.
-- 'Isabella has not her natural advantages,' replied his wife: 'but she must mind and not grow wild again here.
-- I guess she is; yet she looks bravely,' replied the girl, 'and she talks as if she thought of living to see it grow a man.
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