foster
英 [ˈfɒstə(r)]
美 [ˈfɑːstər]
v. 促进; 助长; 培养; 鼓励; 代养,抚育,照料(他人子女一段时间)
adj. 与某些代养有关的名词连用
过去分词:fostered 现在分词:fostering 过去式:fostered 第三人称单数:fosters
Collins.2 / BNC.5618 / COCA.4359
同义词辨析
adoptedadoptivefoster【导航词义:收养的】
adoptedadj. 领养的,被收养的
〔辨析〕
指被人收养的。
〔例证〕
She is Mr. Green's adopted daughter.
她是格林先生的养女。
她是格林先生的养女。
adoptiveadj. 收养(孩子)的
〔辨析〕
指收养他人孩子的,只作定语。
〔例证〕
Mr. Green is Jane's adoptive father.
格林先生是简的养父。
She has to take care of her adoptive mother.
她必须照顾养母。
格林先生是简的养父。
She has to take care of her adoptive mother.
她必须照顾养母。
fosteradj. 收养的
〔辨析〕
一般作定语,既可指“被收养的(adopted)”,也可指“收养孩子的(adoptive)”。
〔例证〕
the foster father/mother/parents
养父/养母/养父母
the foster children/daughter/son
养子女/养女/养子
a foster home
寄养家庭
My foster father treated me as his own son.
我养父待我如同亲生。
养父/养母/养父母
the foster children/daughter/son
养子女/养女/养子
a foster home
寄养家庭
My foster father treated me as his own son.
我养父待我如同亲生。
nursefosternurture【导航词义:关心,照顾】
nursev. 护理,照料
〔辨析〕
通常指照顾生病、受伤、年迈的人。
〔例证〕
After his injury, Mrs Miles nursed him back to health.
他受伤后,迈尔斯夫人照料他恢复了健康。
She spends all her time nursing her old mother.
她全部的时间都用来照料年迈的母亲。
他受伤后,迈尔斯夫人照料他恢复了健康。
She spends all her time nursing her old mother.
她全部的时间都用来照料年迈的母亲。
fosterv. 抚育,代养
〔辨析〕
指在一段时间内替他人照顾孩子,但法律上并未成为孩子的父母。
〔例证〕
We fostered the young girl while her mother was in hospital.
她母亲住院时,我们照顾这个小女孩。
The couple adopted the black child they had been fostering.
那对夫妇收养了他们一直代养的黑人小孩。
她母亲住院时,我们照顾这个小女孩。
The couple adopted the black child they had been fostering.
那对夫妇收养了他们一直代养的黑人小孩。
nurturev. 〈正式〉养育,培育
〔辨析〕
指照料处于生长发育阶段的孩子或植物。
〔例证〕
Those young parents often discuss the best way to nurture their children.
那些年轻的父母经常讨论养育孩子的最佳方法。
These plants should be nurtured in the greenhouse.
这些植物应该在温室里培育。
那些年轻的父母经常讨论养育孩子的最佳方法。
These plants should be nurtured in the greenhouse.
这些植物应该在温室里培育。
牛津词典
verb
- 促进;助长;培养;鼓励
to encourage sth to develop- The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.
俱乐部的宗旨是促进团体内部的关系。
- The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.
- 代养,抚育,照料(他人子女一段时间)
to take another person's child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents- They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years.
在过去十年间,他们抚育了60多个儿童。 - We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.
我们不能领养孩子,所以决定代养一个。
- They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years.
adj.
- (与某些代养有关的名词连用)
used with some nouns in connection with the fostering of a child- a foster mother/father/family
代养母 / 父;代养的家庭 - foster parents
代养父母 - a foster child
代养子 - a foster home
寄养家庭 - foster care
寄养照管
- a foster mother/father/family
柯林斯词典
- ADJ 寄养的;代养的
Fosterparents are people who officially take a child into their family for a period of time, without becoming the child's legal parents. The child is referred to as theirfosterchild.- Little Jack was placed with foster parents...
小杰克和养父母住在一起。 - The foster mother was a wonderful, warm person.
寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。
- Little Jack was placed with foster parents...
- VERB 寄养;代养
If youfostera child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.- She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children.
从那以后她代养了 100 多个孩子,并从中得到快乐。
- She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children.
- VERB 促进;鼓励;培养
Tofostersomething such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.- He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies...
他说,发达国家有责任促进全球经济增长,以帮助新兴民主国家。 - Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
地产贬值引发了现金危机。
- He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies...
英英释义
verb
- help develop, help grow
- nurture his talents
- bring up under fosterage
- promote the growth of
- Foster our children's well-being and education
adj
- providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
- foster parent
- foster child
- foster home
- surrogate father
双语例句
- The foster mother was a wonderful, warm person.
寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。 - He may have had some suspicions of Michael Foster, the editor of the journal
他可能对杂志主编迈克尔·福斯特有些怀疑。 - Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
地产贬值引发了现金危机。 - After due consideration it was decided to send him away to live with foster parents
充分考虑之后决定将他送到养父母那儿生活。 - Little Jack was placed with foster parents
小杰克和养父母住在一起。 - Raise design standards and foster design-related education;
提高设计水平和推动与设计有关的教育; - And more broadly, we need to foster cooperation and respect among all nations and peoples.
在更广泛的层次上,我们需要增进在所有国家和人民之间的合作与尊重。 - He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies
他说,发达国家有责任促进全球经济增长,以帮助新兴民主国家。 - It might be possible for a single woman to be accepted as a foster parent
有可能会接受单身女子作为领养人。 - Thus we emphasize the process of learning to foster all aspects of the student's development.
因此我们强调在此教学过程中培养学生的各个方面的发展。