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growing

英 ['ɡrəʊɪŋ] 美['ɡroɪŋ]

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adj. 发展的；成长的
v. 生长（grow的ing形式）

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But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.

In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by a large number of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us

High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.

But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失).

The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years

The project is a growing one and is spread from the park to the school and the shopping center.

A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of computerized date as a frightening invasion of their privacy.

Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain.

There are now growing numbers of people who live alone, single parents and children, and double-income families

But taking a cue from health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer more-healthful menu options for children at a time when concern is growing over the role of fast food in childhood obesity(肥胖症)

As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.

Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents.

Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter

Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem is growing: Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers

As artificial intelligence A becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.

In addition, a growing share of young adults may be avoiding marriage altogether.

In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist, said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning traditional beliefs about gender and brain function.

Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.

Physical activity does the body good, and there's growing evidence that it helps the brain too.

Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.

What's indisputable is that it's growing very quickly.

While there are numerous factors behind these shifts, one factor is surely a growing realization for the young that they are going to live longer.

This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.

In processing foods after the agricultural stage, there are large additional uses of water that need to be tackled in a world of growing demand

Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.

But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.

Compressing everything into three years also leaves less time for growing up, engaging in extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.

The rising numbers signify growing vitality in foreign markets – when we import more stuff, it puts more cash in the hands of people around the world, and U.S. exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

based businesses, large and small, figure out how to get a piece of growing global demand

It is the result of America's growing focus on domestic market.

The growing conflicts among ethnic groups.

Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants

Because America's population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking, America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically (地缘政治上).

Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic.

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.

The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

China has arguably the fastest growing operations in Antarctica.

From the lack of secure, affordable housing to growing job insecurity and rising personal debt, the individual is trapped.

Growing up in New Zealand, everything was always calm and slow.

When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.

Her family received international aid during the war when she was growing up.

It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.

Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.

Men aspired to be able to show off their 6 packs or their V-shaped backs and there's a growing market of slimming pills aimed at men, too.

Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at dawn of this new millennium(千年).

The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.

The findings come amid growing concern over the future of the Antarctic.

The report, published on Tuesday, comes amid growing concern about the impact of fishing and climate change on the Antarctic.

There is also a growing body of evidence that diet-induced cognitive impairments can emerge rapidly — within weeks or even days.

They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

Two or more satellites slamming into each other could create many more out-of-control bits that would pose even more hazards to the growing collection of satellites in space.

While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, urging antitrust反垄断regulators to step in to check those who control its flow.

As data and identity theft becomes more and more common, the market is growing for biometric technologies to keep others out of private e-spaces.

But the disease is making a comeback, caused by a growing anti-vaccine movement and misinformation that is spreading quickly.

Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.

China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

Growing up, I had people telling me I was too slow, though, with an IQ of 150 at 17, I'm anything but stupid.

I'm talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years.

In addition, new coffee-growing techniques are poisoning the water locally, and eventually the world's groundwater.

In the years of my growing up, dad was strict with me.

It ends abruptly at 3, 000 meters, giving way to lands of low growing plants.

It limits the spread of new growing techniques.

It turns out that just looking at green,growing things can reduce stress,lower blood pressure,and put people into a better mood.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

Loe initially went to school to become an engineer, but she quickly learned that her enthusiasm was mainly about growing and preparing her own food.

Moreover, the new growing techniques are contributing to acidic soil conditions.

My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

New compulsory age-appropriate relationship and sex education lessons in England should help equip children to deal with the growing demands of social media.

Our family, however, was growing together, sharing experiences and participating in one another's education.

She ultimately purchased a small piece of land with her husband and began growing their own foods.

So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts.

Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.

The problem is that countries around the world have growing mountains of rubbish because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

Thinking about his children's clothes, he started growing cotton too.

When John was growing up, other kids felt sorry for him.

While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

Yet there is evidence suggesting that the trend is growing.

Yet, now that I'm growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape.

You're not growing up anytime soon.

A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

A growing number seem to agree.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at las

overall, Europe's wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000and is expected to approach 38

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.