grow：成长的滋味
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
我早已抛弃了这种观念：高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必经之路。知识的“温室”并不总能生长可供食物用的粮食。
——罗伯·摩斯
一、你知道grow有几种含义吗？
v.
1.种植 to spring up and develop to maturity
The farmers have grown crops for generations.
农民们几辈子都种农作物。
2.扩大；扩展；增加 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.
调节幅度也随之扩大。
3.生长，成长，发育，长大，长高 to become bigger or taller and develop into an adult
The nutrient in the soil acts as a stimulus to make the plants grow.
土壤中的养分能促进植物生长。
4.提升品质；培养技能 to develop and improve particular qualities or skills
The ability to grow stem cells into tissues and organs is being developed by American researchers.
把干细胞培养成组织和器官的技术正由美国研究人员加以开发。
5.渐渐变得，逐渐成为 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.
关于这件事，我们家庭里发生了许多次的口角，这些口角逐渐发展到危险的程度。
二、词义辨析：还有什么单词也能表示“成为”的意思呢
become, get, grow, turn, go, come
这些动词均可表示“变成，成为”之意。
be
come最普通用词，作为连系动词，指从一个状态向另一个状态的变化。
get常指某人或某物有意无意地获得引起变化的因素，结果使变成另一状态。
grow常指逐渐地变成新状态，强调渐变的过程。
turn侧重指变得与原来截然不同，有时含贬义。
go作为连系动词，通常与形容词连用，指进入某种状态，从而发生变化，多指不好的状态。
come侧重变化的经过或过程，多用于不良情况。
三、grow能和哪些词搭配呢？
grow up
1.成长 2.逐渐形成
四、最后，来做个填词游戏吧
After a summer here the poorest sheep and cattle ____ strong and fat.
经过一个夏天， 连最差的牛羊在这里也长得又肥又壮了。
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