foster的详尽意思

1. 养育的
2. 收养的，领养的，寄养的
3. 照顾孤儿的

1. 养父母
2. 福斯特（音译名）

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

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

1.寄养的;代养的
Foster parents 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 theirfoster child.

e.g. Little Jack was placed withfoster parents...
小杰克和养父母住在一起。
e.g. Thefoster mother was a wonderful, warm person.
寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。

2.寄养;代养
If youfoster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.

e.g. 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。

3.促进;鼓励;培养
Tofoster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.

e.g. He said that developed countries had a responsibility tofoster 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。
e.g. Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
地产贬值引发了现金危机。

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

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。

• 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

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。