grow与grow up的区别
Grow:
◆ We can use grow to talk about a lot of things (plants, animals, hair, people, cities, queues, sales, or the population of a country, etc.) (getting bigger, taller or longer or increasing in size or number)
Grow可以用来讨论很多事情,如植物、动物、头发、人、城市、队伍、销售、或一个国家的人口等等,形容长大、长高、变长或体积或规模或数量增加。
e.g.
1.The plants grow./We’re growing plants. (bigger, taller)
植物长大了/我们种植植物。
2.Our hair grow./We’re growing our hair. (longer)
头发长长了/我们留头发。
3.The sales have grown 20% in the first quarter. (increase in number)
第一季度的销售额提高了20%。
★ Grow is both transitive and intransitive. It can be used with an object or without an object.
Grow可以作及物动词或不及物动词,可接宾语或单独使用。
Grow up:
◆ We only use grow up to talk about a child developing into an adult
grow up 只能用来形容小孩长大成人。
e.g.
1.Where did you grow up? I grew up in Beijing.
你在哪里长大的?我在北京长大的。
2.When I grow up, I want to be a teacher.
长大后,我想成为一名教师。
3.Grow up doing sth = spend your childhood doing sth
从小开始一直做某事
I grew up dancing.
我从小开始跳舞。
★ Grow up is always intransitive, there is no object following it.
Grow up是不及物动词,不接宾语。
再来比较几个例子:
1.The children grew. (They got bigger and taller.)
孩子们长高长壮了。
2.The children grew up. (They became adults.)
孩子们长大成人了。
3.The children grew ten centimeters. (They got taller.)
孩子们长高了10厘米。