growth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生长， 增长， 发展，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demure-ly at the hung-up mistletoe.
-- Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the pauses of complete stillness there came the rustle of last year's leaves, stirred by the thawing of the earth and the growth of the grass.
-- Snetkov, now...We may be of use, or we may not, but we're the growth of a thousand years.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have to master the growth of the language and so on and so forth.
-- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.
-- In eight hours a good growth of bacteria had appeared.
-- He cursed the delay involved in the growth of the bacteria, without which he could not discover the effect of the various sorts of broths and bacterial strains, but choked his impatience.
-- In these, the mysterious murderer of germs had prevented the growth of the new bacteria which he had introduced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes inmy growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered allthis while?
-- A distrust of myself, which has often beset me in life on smalloccasions, when it would have been better away, was assuredly notstopped in its growth by this little incident outside the Canterburycoach.
-- The venerable cathedraltowers, and the old jackdaws and rooks whose airy voices madethem more retired than perfect silence would have done; thebattered gateways, once stuck full with statues, long thrown down,and crumbled away, like the reverential pilgrims who had gazedupon them; the still nooks, where the ivied growth of centuriescrept over gabled ends and ruined walls; the ancient houses, thepastoral landscape of field, orchard, and garden; everywhereoneverything- I felt the same serener air, the same calm, thoughtful,softening spirit.
-- Or perhaps this is the Desert of Sahara!For, though Julia has astately house, and mighty company, and sumptuous dinners everyday, I see no green growth near her; nothing that can ever come tofruit or flower.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ring of the sheep-bell, which had been silent during his absence, recommenced, in tones that had more mellowness than clearness, owing to an increasing growth of surrounding wool.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us.
-- I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It opened to the ground, and looked into a most miserable corner of the neglected garden, upon a rank ruin of cabbage-stalks, and one box-tree that had been clipped round long ago, like a pudding, and had a new growth at the top of it, out of shape and of a different color, as if that part of the pudding had stuck to the saucepan and got burnt.
-- It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber-frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan.
-- If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.
-- I was going out at the opposite door,--not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered with a growth of fungus,--when I turned my head to look back.
-- And Joe got in beside me, and we drove away together into the country, where the rich summer growth was already on the trees and on the grass, and sweet summer scents filled all the air.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other was, by a certain composition of gums, minerals, and vegetables, outwardly applied, to prevent the growth of wool upon two young lambs; and he hoped, in a reason-able time to propagate the breed of naked sheep, all over the kingdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life.
-- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock.
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