grow

vi.
1. come,arise 发生。
△Com. 4.4.123 (121): “know-ing how the debt grows,I will pay it.”一弄清债是怎么欠上的，我就偿还。
△Lr.1.3. 24 (23): “What grows of it,no matter.”出了什么事，没关系。
2. develop 发展。
△Wiv. 1. 1. 80 (77): “if mattersgrow to your likings.”如果事情的发展让你高兴的话；如果大家谈得倒还投机的话。
3. come to pass,become 出现，成为。
△1H.vi.
1.1.135:“Hence grew the general wrack and massacre；”这样就发生了全面的溃败和屠杀。
4. increase 增加。
△2H.IV.1.3.10:“Our present mus-ters grow upon the file /To five and twenty thousandmen of choice，”根据名册，我们现在征召起来的队伍已经达到二万五千名精兵。
△H.V.3.3.54: “For us (i.e. As forus),dear uncle,/ The winter coming on and sicknessgrowing / Upon our soldiers,we will retire to Calais.”至于我们这方面，亲爱的王叔，冬季已来临了，士兵们患病者增多，我们要退到加莱。
△H.VIII.5.4.74 (5.3.68): “Theygrow still too; from all parts they are coming,/ As ifwe kept a fair here.”他们从四面八方拥来，越聚越多，好像我们在这里举办集市。
5.i.e. become pregnant 长大，（指）怀孕。
△Rom.1.3.95:“No less? Nay,bigger. Women grow by men.”(The nurse makes a joke.) i.e. Women are never made “less”by men,but bigger because they becomepregnant.更小？ 不，只会更大，女人靠了男人会长得更大。
6. live,be 生活，存在。
△H.V.2.2.21:“We carry not aheart with us from hence / That grows not in a fairconsent with ours；”我们从这里带走的人，没有一个不是和我完全心同意合的。
7. cling close,adhere; become rooted and increase 紧贴，依附；扎根生长。
△Mac.1.4.32:“There if I grow,The harvest is your own.”i.e. If I cling close to yourheart,you will reap the whole benefit of that gener-osity of yours.(Or: If,planted there,my growth in-creases,the fruit I bear will be all your own.)如能在陛下心头滋长，那收获也是属于陛下的。
Phrases:
grow backward: get shorter instead of longer 愈长愈短。
△Mer.2.2.105 (96): “It should seem then thatDobbin's tail grows backward.”那么道宾的尾巴必定像是愈长愈短了。
grow to: ❶ advance to,come to,arrive at,achieve,rise to 前进到，达到，来到，得到，提高到。
△1H.VI.4.1.36:“Such as were grown to credit by the wars；”他们都是身经百战、获得盛誉。
❷ cling to 依附，依靠。
△H.VIII.3.1.87(88): “They that must weigh out my afflictions,/They that my trust must grow to,live not here.”那些一定能消除我的痛苦的人，那些我一定可以信赖依靠的人，都不在这里。
❸ be an integral part of,incorporate with 是…固有的一部分，与…结合在一起。
△2H.IV. 1.2. 99 (87): “Ilay aside that which grows to me?”让我把我生来就有的东西放在一边吗？
❹“a household phrase applied to milkwhen burnt to the bottom of the saucepan and thenceacquiring an unpleasant taste”(Clark and Wright) 坏了；焦臭了(原指牛奶烧糊在锅底，发出难闻的气味)。
△Mer. 2.2. 18:“something grow to，”有一点坏了；有一点臭。
grow to a point: ❶ come to a conclusion 结束，告终。
❷come to the point 言归正传。
△Mid.1.2.10 (9): “and so grow to a point.”然后言归正传。
grow together: form one body形成为一体。
△H.VIII. 11.9:“how they clung / In their embracement,as(=as if) they grew together，”他们互相紧紧拥抱，好像要结成一体似的。
grow to waste: be passing,pass unprofitably正在过去，无益地流逝。
△Oth.4.2.249 (242):“It is now high sup-per-time,and the night grows to waste.”现在足足到了晚饭时候，夜晚时间正在白白消逝。
grow unto: stick tightly to紧钉在。
△Ham.4.7.85:“he grew unto his seat，”他简直是在鞍子上生了根。
grow upon: ❶grow up so as to become troublesometo,become unmanageable for长大了，不好管了；不服…管教。
❷take liberties with,presume upon对…无礼，不把…放在眼里。
△As.1.1.92 (85): “Is it even so? Beginyou to grow upon me?”居然这个样子吗？ 你不服我管了吗？growing to ... by: due... from ... 应该付给…的。
△Com.4.1.7:“Even just the sum that I do owe to you / Is growing to me by Antipholus，”我欠你的这笔款子，数目正好跟安提福勒斯欠我的一样。

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• chance
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