foster

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
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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。

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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。

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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

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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.

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