核心畫面

You can think of grower as grow plus -er: the one doing the growing. English leaves it open who that one is. It can be the person who makes plants grow, or the plant that does the growing itself.

「grower」可以想成 grow 加上 -er,也就是「做 grow 這件事的那一個」。英文刻意不說那一個是誰。可更多收起「grower」可以想成 grow 加上 -er,也就是「做 grow 這件事的那一個」。英文刻意不說那一個是誰。可能是讓植物長大的人,也可能是那株自己在長的植物。兩條路都從同一個畫面走出來:有人或有東西正在「長」這件事上動作。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the formation directly: grower is grow + -er, where -er traces back through Old English -ere to Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz.

來源資料直接寫明 grower 由 grow 加上 -er 組成。-er 這個後綴一路可以追到古英語的 -ere。它的功能一直都是「做某動作的那一個」。

Wiktionary entry for grower (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1378289866): "From grow + -er."

Two branches

讓東西長大的人

這一支把「動作者」看成人。他讓作物長大,然後把收成賣掉。

noun · B1

A person or a company that grows fruit, vegetables or other crops as a business, in order to sell what they produce.

種植業者/農戶

自己在長的那一個

同樣是「做 grow 的那一個」,只是這次動作者不是人,而是正在長的那個東西本身。

noun · B2

A plant that grows in a particular way, for example quickly, slowly, or strongly. It almost always comes after a word describing how it grows.

長勢…的植物