grown
adjective/ɡrəʊn/
/ɡrəʊn/
[only before noun]- (of a person) mentally and physically an adult
成熟的;成年的;长大成人的 - It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this.
成年人还得这样诉诸暴力,真可悲。 - The little girl she remembered was now a grown woman.
她记忆中的小女孩已出落成一个大姑娘了。
Homophones groan | growngroan grown/ɡrəʊn//ɡrəʊn/- groan verb
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
这些可怕的笑话使我们都发出呻吟声。
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
- groan noun
- He let out a groan of pain.
他发出一声痛苦的呻吟。
- He let out a groan of pain.
- grown (past participle of grow)
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
过去十年来,该业务取得了巨大增长。
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
- grown adjective
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
虽然他已经是个大人了,但他永远是我们的小男孩。
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrown is used with these nouns:- child
- man
- woman
- …
- It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this.