Overgrow

(verb.) grow beyond or across; 'The ivy overgrew the patio'.

(verb.) become overgrown; 'The patio overgrew with ivy'.

(verb.) grow too large.

校对:莱斯利

• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is hard to be laughed at in my moments of sentiment, as if my soul was like myself, old and overgrown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Overgrown with heth and mosse, says Leland of the same dark sweep of country. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Trabb's boy--Trabb's overgrown young man now--went before us with a lantern, which was the light I had seen come in at the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There were two small islands overgrown with bushes and a few trees, towards the middle. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Time, however, overgrew this softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh it still lay at the core. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

校对:惠特尼