核心畫面

You can think of grown as the finished state of grow — the growing has already happened, so the thing now stands at its full, bigger, older form. As a verb part it just marks 'has done the growing'; as an adjective it freezes that result into a label for someone who has finished growing up: an adult.

可以想成 grown 是 grow(生長、長大)的「已完成」狀態——長的動作已經發生過了,眼前這個人或東西現在站在它更多收起可以想成 grown 是 grow(生長、長大)的「已完成」狀態——長的動作已經發生過了,眼前這個人或東西現在站在它長大、變老之後的樣子。當動詞用時,它只是標記「已經長過了」;當形容詞用時,就把這個結果定格成一個標籤:一個已經長大成人的人。

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長大成人(形容詞)

把「已經長完」這個完成狀態凍結成一個形容詞標籤:一個長大過程已結束的人,就是成年人。

fully adult · adjective · B1

Fully an adult, used especially when you think someone should act more like an adult.

成年的

Also in this word

past participle of grow · verb · A2

The past participle of 'grow' — used after 'have/has/had' to talk about getting bigger or older.

grow 的過去分詞

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

grownadj/ɡɹəʊn/

  • 1

    Covered by growth; overgrown.

    • What once was a farm was grown with trees.
  • 2

    Of a person: adult.

    • grown woman/man/adult
    • Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。