grow
transitive verb
PAST: grew. PART: grown |
medrar
EN For that reason, knowing what was before them --love and ambition and being wretched alone in dreary places-- she had often the feeling, why must they grow up and lose it all?
GL Por esta razón, porque sabía o que lles agardaba --o amor e a ambición, e unha existencia desgraciada e solitaria en lugares tristes--, preguntábase a cotío, ¿por que teñen que medrar e perder todo aquilo?
Fonte: CAR (803)
aumentar
EN It had grown now, and on the outskirts the hurrying newcomers were being softly informed how the baby had been stung by a scorpion, how the father and mother were taking it to the doctor.
GL Agora, aumentara moito e polos flancos os apresurados recén chegados eran informados en voz baixa de como o neno fora picado por un escorpión e de como seu pai e súa nai o levaban ó médico.
Fonte: PER (144)
crecer
EN His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else.
GL Os seus valos estábanse derrubando arreo; dáballe o mesmo que a súa vaca se extraviase ou que pasase por riba das verzas; a maleza crecía sempre máis axiña nos seus campos ca noutro calquera.
Fonte: RIP (34)
cultivar
EN Today, he has a wife, 13 children and has had enough of growing coca "for the big shots".
GL Hoxe ten unha esposa, 13 fillos e está cansado de cultivar coca "para os patróns".
Fonte: C16 (782)
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