foster

音標發(fā)音

• 英式音標 ['f?st?(r)'f?st?]
• 美式音標 [?fɑ?.st?]
• 國際音標 ['f?st?]
• 英式發(fā)音
• 美式發(fā)音

基本解釋

• v. 促進；撫育（他人子女一段時間）；收養(yǎng)；把（孩子）交托給養(yǎng)父母
• adj. 代養(yǎng)的，寄養(yǎng)的
• n. (Foster) 福斯特（人名）

詞源解說

• 直接源自古英語的fostrian，意爲供給食物，養(yǎng)料等；最初源自原始日耳曼語的fostrom。

詞根記憶

• fost(看作fast，快速的) + er→受到鼓舞，快速前進→鼓勵
• fost(看作fast，快速的) + er→促進；培養(yǎng)
• fost(看做fast，快速的) + er→使變得更快速→鼓勵，促進，助長
• 這對老夫婦收養(yǎng)(foster)了一個被遺棄在森林(forest)裡的孩子
• bolster(v.支持)

同根派生

• n性質的同根詞

  fosterage：寄養(yǎng)；養(yǎng)育；助長。

• foster相關詞

英漢例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
  現(xiàn)今年輕夫婦有時領養(yǎng)別人的孩子。

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• We foster the young girl while her mother was in hospital.
  小女孩的母親住院時我們照顧這個小女孩。

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詞組短語

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• foster a child 收養(yǎng)孩子
• foster an attitude 滋長某種情緒
• foster an impression 加深印象
• foster an interest 培養(yǎng)興趣
• foster inflation 刺激通貨膨脹

短語

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

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (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.

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