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VERB
生长；长大；发育
When people, animals, and plants grow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
例句
We stop growing at maturity.
我们成年之后不再长个儿。
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VERB
成活；生长
If a plant or tree grows in a particular place, it is alive there.
例句
The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
车站月台的两头种着玫瑰花。
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VERB
栽种；种植
If you grow a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
例句
I always grow a few red onions...
我总是喜欢种一些红洋葱。
Lettuce was grown by the Ancient Romans.
古罗马人最先种植莴苣。
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VERB
（毛发、指甲等）变长
When someone's hair grows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails also grow.
例句
Then the hair began to grow again and I felt terrific.
然后，头发又长起来了，我感觉棒极了。
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VERB
留长（头发或指甲）；蓄（胡须）
If someone grows their hair, or grows a beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can also grow your nails.
例句
I'd better start growing my hair.
我最好开始留头发。
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VERB
成长；长大；成熟
If someone grows mentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
例句
They began to grow as persons.
他们开始长大成人了。
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V-LINK
变得；变成；长成
You use grow to say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
例句
I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
我开始有些害怕隔壁的那个家伙。
He's growing old...
他渐渐变老了。
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VERB
增加；增强；增大
If an amount, feeling, or problem grows, it becomes greater or more intense.
例句
The number of unemployed people in Poland has grown by more than a quarter in the last month...
上个月，波兰的失业人数增长超过了1/4。
Opposition grew and the government agreed to negotiate.
反对的声音越来越高，政府只好同意进行谈判。
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VERB
成长为；发展为
If one thing grows into another, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
例句
The boys grew into men...
这些男孩子长成了男子汉。
This political row threatens to grow into a full blown crisis.
这场政治争端有可能演化成一场全面爆发的危机。
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VERB
（观点、计划等）产生于，源于
If something such as an idea or a plan grows out of something else, it develops from it.
例句
The idea for this book grew out of conversations with Philippa Brewster.
创作这本书的想法来源于跟菲莉帕·布鲁斯特的谈话。
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VERB
（经济或公司）增长，扩大，发展
If the economy or a business grows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.
例句
The economy continues to grow.
经济持续发展。
...a fast growing business.
迅速发展的企业
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VERB
扩大，壮大，发展（公司等）
If someone grows a business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance.
例句
To grow the business, he needs to develop management expertise and innovation across his team.
为了拓展业务，他需要提高整个团队的管理技能和创新能力。
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V-ERG
（晶体）产生；使（晶体）形成
If a crystal grows, or if a scientist grows it, it forms from a solution.
例句
...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
岩石洞穴中形成的水晶
We tried to grow some copper sulphate crystals with our children.
我们想跟孩子们一起制作硫酸铜晶体。
Verb
1. pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;
"The weather turned nasty""She grew angry"2. become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain;
"The problem grew too large for me""Her business grew fast"3. increase in size by natural process;
"Corn doesn't grow here""In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"4. cause to grow or develop;
"He grows vegetables in his backyard"5. develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;
"He matured fast""The child grew fast"6. come into existence; take on form or shape;
"A new religious movement originated in that country""a love that sprang up from friendship""the idea for the book grew out of a short story""An interesting phenomenon uprose"7. cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;
"The Bordeaux region produces great red wines""They produce good ham in Parma""We grow wheat here""We raise hogs here"8. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);
"He grew a beard""The patient developed abdominal pains""I got funny spots all over my body""Well-developed breasts"9. grow emotionally or mature;
"The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten""When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"10. become attached by or as if by the process of growth;
"The tree trunks had grown together"