growing

英 [ˈɡrəʊɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡroʊɪŋ]

adj.  增加的; 增长的; 增强的
v.  扩大; 增加; 增强; 长大; 长高; 发育; 成长; (使)生长
grow的现在分词

现在分词：growing　

BNC.1579 / COCA.1413

牛津词典

adj.

• 增加的；增长的；增强的
  increasing in size, amount or degree
  1. A growing number of people are returning to full-time education.
     越来越多的人重返学校接受全日制教育。
  2. one of the country's fastest growing industries
     这个国家增长最快的行业之一
  3. There is growing concern over the safety of the missing teenager.
     人们对这个失踪少年的安全越来越担心。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 生长；长大；发育
  When people, animals, and plantsgrow, they increase in size and change physically over a period of time.
  1. We stop growing at maturity.
     我们成年之后不再长个儿。
• VERB 成活；生长
  If a plant or treegrowsin a particular place, it is alive there.
  1. The station had roses growing at each end of the platform.
     车站月台的两头种着玫瑰花。
• VERB 栽种；种植
  If yougrowa particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after them as they develop.
  1. I always grow a few red onions...
     我总是喜欢种一些红洋葱。
  2. Lettuce was grown by the Ancient Romans.
     古罗马人最先种植莴苣。
• VERB （毛发、指甲等）变长
  When someone's hairgrows, it gradually becomes longer. Your nails alsogrow.
  1. 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。
• VERB 留长（头发或指甲）；蓄（胡须）
  If someonegrowstheir hair, orgrowsa beard or moustache, they stop cutting their hair or shaving so that their hair becomes longer. You can alsogrowyour nails.
  1. I'd better start growing my hair.
     我最好开始留头发。
• VERB 成长；长大；成熟
  If someonegrowsmentally, they change and develop in character or attitude.
  1. They began to grow as persons.
     他们开始长大成人了。
• V-LINK 变得；变成；长成
  You usegrowto say that someone or something gradually changes until they have a new quality, feeling, or attitude.
  1. I grew a little afraid of the guy next door...
     我开始有些害怕隔壁的那个家伙。
  2. He's growing old...
     他渐渐变老了。
  3. He grew to love his work.
     他开始喜欢上他的工作了。
• VERB 增加；增强；增大
  If an amount, feeling, or problemgrows, it becomes greater or more intense.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. ...a growing number of immigrants.
     日益增长的移民数量
• VERB 成长为；发展为
  If one thinggrows intoanother, it develops or changes until it becomes that thing.
  1. The boys grew into men...
     这些男孩子长成了男子汉。
  2. 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。
• VERB （观点、计划等）产生于，源于
  If something such as an idea or a plangrows out ofsomething else, it develops from it.
  1. 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。
• VERB （经济或公司）增长，扩大，发展
  If the economy or a businessgrows, it increases in wealth, size, or importance.
  1. The economy continues to grow.
     经济持续发展。
  2. ...a fast growing business.
     迅速发展的企业
• VERB 扩大，壮大，发展（公司等）
  If someonegrowsa business, they take actions that will cause it to increase in wealth, size, or importance.
  1. 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。
• V-ERG （晶体）产生；使（晶体）形成
  If a crystalgrows, or if a scientistgrowsit, it forms from a solution.
  1. ...crystals that grow in cavities in the rock...
     岩石洞穴中形成的水晶
  2. 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。
• See also:grown

Be careful not to confuse the verbsgrow upandbring up.Grow upis an intransitive verb, and describes the process of becoming an adult.I grew up in rural southern England.Bring upis a transitive verb, and describes the process of looking after and socializing a child....we both felt the town was the perfect place to bring up a family. Note then, that parents do not 'grow up' their children, they 'bring them up'.
不要混淆grow up与bring up。grow up是不及物动词，描述长大成人的过程：I grew up in rural southern England（我在英格兰南部乡村长大）。bring up是及物动词，描述的是养育孩子并使之适应社会的过程：We both felt the town was the perfect place to bring up a family（我们俩都觉得这个小镇是养儿育女的理想之地）。注意：父母养育子女不能说 grow up，只能说bring them up。

英英释义

noun

• (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
  1. he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
  Synonym:growthmaturationdevelopmentontogenyontogenesis

adj

• relating to or suitable for growth
  1. the growing season for corn
  2. good growing weather

双语例句

• There's growing disenchantment with the Government.
  大家对政府的幻想渐渐破灭了。
• I find the media's growing obsession with smut and sensation deplorable.
  我发现媒体越来越沉湎于淫秽下流和耸人听闻的题材，这实在可悲。
• Swift said the growing sophistication among biotech investors presented an opportunity for a more specialist investment fund.
  斯威夫特说，生物科技领域的投资人越来越精明了，这也为我们获得一个更专业的投资基金提供了机会。
• The bill might have gone through if the economy was growing.
  要是当时经济在增长的话，该法案或许也就获得通过了。
• He's found growing sentiment for military action.
  他发现支持采取军事行动的情绪日益高涨。
• This kind of soil is not suitable for growing peanuts.
  这种土壤不宜种花生。
• The developed nations have to recognize the growing gap between rich and poor around the world
  发达国家必须认识到世界范围内的贫富差距正在不断扩大。
• This is a growing trend.
  这是日益显著的趋势。
• Our foreign population is growing.
  外来人口在增长。
• The growing number of people seeking refuge in Thailand is beginning to concern Western aid agencies
  到泰国寻求庇护的人日益增多，这开始引起了西方援助机构的不安。