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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 [T] 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 [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.
调节幅度也随之扩大。
3.生长，成长，发育，长大，长高 [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.
土壤中的养分能促进植物生长。
4.提升品质；培养技能 [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 [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.
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。 | 
发表于 2016-10-31 17:40:28