foster

英 ['fɒstə(r)] 美 ['fɔːstər]

• vt. 领养；培养；促进；鼓励；抱有（希望等）
• adj. 收养的

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 培养,促进

   help the growth or development

2. vt. & vi. 收养,养育

   take care or bring up a child that is not legally one's own

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 养育的
2. 收养的，领养的，寄养的
3. 照顾孤儿的

n. 名词

1. 养父母
2. 福斯特（音译名）

v. 动词

1. 扶植，培养
2. 心怀，怀抱，抱有（希望等)
3. 助长，促进（发育）
4. 养育，抚育，孕育，抚养
5. 提倡
6. 领养，收养
7. 代养，抚育（他人子女一段时间）
8. 激励，鼓励

英英释义

Noun:

1. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

Adjective:

1. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;

   "foster parent"
   "foster child"
   "foster home"
   "surrogate father"
   

Verb:

1. promote the growth of;

   "Foster our children's well-being and education"
   

2. bring up under fosterage; of children

3. help develop, help grow;

   "nurture his talents"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. People who cannot have a baby of their own sometimes foster (a child).
   不能生育的人有时领养别人的(孩子).
2. It is very important to foster an interest.
   培养一种兴趣是十分重要的。
3. The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music.
   母亲设法培养儿子对音乐的兴趣。
4. Ignorance fosters superstition.
   无知助长迷信。
5. Foster students'use of various thinking strategies.
   鼓励学生采用不同思维方式的策略。
6. We should foster capital investment in areas needing development.
   我们应鼓励在需要发展的地区投资。
7. I know that she fosters a secret hope.
   我知道她抱着秘密的希望。

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. The foster children also deserve love and care.
   收养的孩子也应该得到关爱。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
   现今年轻夫妇有时领养别人的孩子。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. We foster the young girl while her mother was in hospital.
   小女孩的母亲住院时我们照顾这个小女孩。
2. The captain did his best to foster a sense of unity among the new recruits.
   队长尽力培养新成员之间的团结精神。
3. Ignorance fosters superstition.
   无知助长迷信。

经典引文

• My idea of happiness was to have a family...Even an adoptive or foster family would have sufficed.

  出自： M. Forster

• One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes.

  出自：Cymbeline , Shakespeare

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• foster a child 收养孩子
• foster an attitude 滋长某种情绪
• foster an impression 加深印象
• foster an interest 培养兴趣
• foster inflation 刺激通货膨胀

词义辨析

v. (动词)

foster, cherish, cultivate, nurse, nurture

• 这组词都可表示“照料或培育某人或某事”。其区别在于:nurse通常指养育婴儿或幼兽或照料无力自顾的病人; cherish着重指抚育或爱护; cultivate则指培养某种理想中的事物或感情; foster指鼓励、扶植或促进某事物的增长和发展; nurture则强调对后来发展起决定作用的教养或训练。例如:
• All her time goes into nursing her old father.她的全部时间都用来看护她的老父亲。
• They have cherished the child as one of their own.他们把这个小孩当作自己的亲生子女来抚养。
• He cultivates an appreciation of abstract art.他培养对抽象艺术的鉴赏力。
• The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was young.母亲设法培养儿子对音乐的兴趣,在他很小的时候就带他去参加音乐会。
• Nurture your mind with good reading.以优秀的读物来发展你的心智。

nurse，tend，foster，cultivate，cherish

• 这些动词均含“照料、培育”之意。
• nurse通常指对无力自顾的婴儿、病人等进行照料或护理。
• tend指出于责任心、博爱心而不是私人感情去对人或物进行照顾。
• foster指对孩子的关心、鼓励、供养及抚养其成长；也指鼓励、促进事物的增长与发展。
• cultivate具体意义指耕耘、培育植物；抽象意义指培养兴趣或向往的理想事物。
• cherish强调抚育或爱抚。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的fostrian，意为供给食物，养料等；最初源自原始日耳曼语的fostrom。

近反义词

【近义词】

• encourage
• nurse
• protect

【反义词】

• combat
• oppose
• resist