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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father's farm.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Though the position of all of us at that time was not par-ticularly brilliant, and the poverty was dreadful all round, yet the etiquette at court was strictly preserved, and the more strictly in proportion to the growth of the forebod-ings of disaster.'
-- This rapid growth of self-confidence could not be due only to her hatred for Aglaya.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a kind of glade in the forest, made by a fall; seedlings were already starting up to struggle for the vacant space; and beyond, the dense growth of stems and twining vines and splashes of fungus and flowers closed in again.
-- I remember a growth of thorny plants, with spines that stabbed like pen-knives.
-- I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that black and succulent un-der foot.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coming to a town people busy in the markets; light carts and chaises round the tavern yard; tradesmen standing at their doors; men running horses up and down the street for sale; pigs plunging and grunting in the dirty distance, getting off with long strings at their legs, running into clean chemists' shops and being dislodged with brooms by 'prentices; the night coach changing horses the passengers cheerless, cold, ugly, and discontented, with three months' growth of hair in one night the coachman fresh as from a band-box, and exquisitely beautiful by contrast: so much bustle, so many things in motion, such a variety of incidents when was there a journey with so many delights as that journey in the waggon!
-- She took a Bible from the shelf, and read; then, laying it down, thought of the summer days and the bright springtime that would come of the rays of sun that would fall in aslant, upon the sleeping forms of the leaves that would flutter at the window, and play in glistening shadows on the pavement of the songs of birds, and growth of buds and blossoms out of doors of the sweet air, that would steal in, and gently wave the tattered banners overhead.
-- Forgotten!oh, if the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection, would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!'
-- Certainly the friendship between the single gentleman and Mr Garland was not suffered to cool, but had a rapid growth and flourished exceedingly.
-- As many restless spirits, who have hunted fortune, fame, or pleasure through the world, retire in their decline to where they first drew breath, vainly seeking to be children once again before they die, so we, less fortunate than they in early life, but happier in its closing scenes, will set up our rest again among our boyish haunts, and going home with no hope realised, that had its growth in manhood carrying back nothing that we brought away, but our old yearnings to each other saving no fragment from the wreck of life, but that which first endeared it may be, indeed, but children as at first.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had sprung from nothing, by no natural growth or process that any one could account for; he had been, after all, a low, ignorant fellow; he had been a down-looking man, and no one had ever been able to catch his eye; he had been taken up by all sorts of people in quite an unaccountable manner; he had never had any money of his own, his ventures had been utterly reckless, and his expenditure had been most enormous.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's, and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patron-age, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In 1889 Chicago had the peculiar qualifications of growth which made such adventuresome pilgrimages even on the part of young girls plausible.
-- One of those forlorn impulses which often grow out of a fixed sense of defeat, the last sprouting of a baffled and uprooted growth of ideas, seized upon her.
-- Chapter XV THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES--THE MAGIC OF YOUTH The complete ignoring by Hurstwood of his own home came with the growth of his affection for Carrie.
-- Such little arguments were all too frequent, the result of a growth of natures which were largely independent and selfish.
-- It may be conserved by the growth of a community or of a state.
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