grow：成長的滋味

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

——Robert Moses

我早已拋棄了這種觀念：高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必經之路。知識的“溫室”並不總能生長可供食物用的糧食。

——羅伯·摩斯

一、你知道grow有幾種含義嗎？

v.

1.種植 [T] to spring up and develop to maturity

The farmers have grown crops for generations.

農民們幾輩子都種農作物。

2.擴大；擴展；增加 [T] to increase in size by assimilation of material into the living organism or by accretion of material in a nonbiological process

Rate regulation also grow accordingly.

調節幅度也隨之擴大。

3.生長，成長，發育，長大，長高 [I] to become bigger or taller and develop into an adult

The nutrient in the soil acts as a stimulus to make the plants grow.

土壤中的養分能促進植物生長。

4.提升品質；培養技能 [I] to develop and improve particular qualities or skills

The ability to grow stem cells into tissues and organs is being developed by American researchers.

把幹細胞培養成組織和器官的技術正由美國研究人員加以開發。

5.漸漸變得，逐漸成爲 [I] to gradually begin to do sth

We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height.

關於這件事，我們家庭裏發生了許多次的口角，這些口角逐漸發展到危險的程度。

二、詞義辨析：還有什麼單詞也能表示“成爲”的意思呢

become, get, grow, turn, go, come

這些動詞均可表示“變成，成爲”之意。

be

come最普通用詞，作爲連繫動詞，指從一個狀態向另一個狀態的變化。

get常指某人或某物有意無意地獲得引起變化的因素，結果使變成另一狀態。

grow常指逐漸地變成新狀態，強調漸變的過程。

turn側重指變得與原來截然不同，有時含貶義。

go作爲連繫動詞，通常與形容詞連用，指進入某種狀態，從而發生變化，多指不好的狀態。

come側重變化的經過或過程，多用於不良情況。

三、grow能和哪些詞搭配呢？

grow up

1.成長 2.逐漸形成

四、最後，來做個填詞遊戲吧

After a summer here the poorest sheep and cattle ____ strong and fat.

經過一個夏天， 連最差的牛羊在這裏也長得又肥又壯了。