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foster

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['fɒstə(r)'fɒstə]
  • 美式音标 [ˈfɑː.stɚ]
  • 国际音标 ['fɔstə]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • v. 促进；抚育（他人子女一段时间）；收养；把（孩子）交托给养父母
  • adj. 代养的，寄养的
  • n. (Foster) 福斯特（人名）

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。

词根记忆

  • fost(看作fast，快速的) + er→受到鼓舞，快速前进→鼓励
  • fost(看作fast，快速的) + er→促进；培养
  • fost(看做fast，快速的) + er→使变得更快速→鼓励，促进，助长
  • 这对老夫妇收养(foster)了一个被遗弃在森林(forest)里的孩子
  • bolster(v.支持)

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    fosterage：寄养；养育；助长。

英汉例句

    用作动词 (v.)

    用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

  • 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.

  • 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。

词组短语

    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

    • 短语

  • Stephen Foster 史蒂芬·福斯特;斯蒂芬·福斯特;福斯特;佛斯特

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (TAKE CARE OF) to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent
  • (ENCOURAGE) to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings
  • used to refer to someone or something connected with the care of children, usually for a limited time, by someone who is not the child's legal parent

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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 their foster child.
  • If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.
  • To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.