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/fɒ̱stə(r), AM fɔ͟ːst-/
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[ADJ 形容词]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 their foster child.
  [ADJ n]
  • Little Jack was placed with foster parents...

    小杰克和养父母住在一起。

  • The foster mother was a wonderful, warm person.

    寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。

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[VERB 动词]寄养;代养 If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.
  [V n]
  • 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。

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[VERB 动词]促进;鼓励;培养 To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.
  [V n]
  • He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster 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。

  • Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.

    地产贬值引发了现金危机。


Oxford fos·ter / ˈfɒstə(r) ; NAmE ˈfɔːstər ; ˈfɑːstər /
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foster fosters fostered fostering
verb 1 [transitive ] fostersth to encourage sth to develop 促进;助长;培养;鼓励 SYN
encourage
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promote
The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community. 俱乐部的宗旨是促进团体内部的关系。
2 [transitive ,  intransitive ] foster(sb) ( especially BrE) to take another person's child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents 代养,抚育,照料(他人子女一段时间) They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years. 在过去十年间,他们抚育了 60 多个儿童。 We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster. 我们不能领养孩子,所以决定代养一个。 collocationsat
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adjective [only before noun ] used with some nouns in connection with the fosteringof a child (与某些代养有关的名词连用) a foster mother/father/family 代养母亲╱父亲;代养的家庭 foster parents 代养父母 a foster child 代养的小孩 a foster home 寄养家庭 foster care 寄养照管 fos·ter / ˈfɒstə(r) ; NAmE ˈfɔːstər ; ˈfɑːstər /
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foster2 adjective
fosterfos‧ter1 /ˈfɒstə $ ˈfɑːstər/ ●○○ verb
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1[transitive] to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time SYN  encourage, promote:  The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.2[intransitive, transitive] to take someone else’s child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their legal parentadopt:  The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering.
foster1 verb
foster2 adjective
fosterfoster2 ●○○ adjective
Word Origin
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1foster mother/father/parents the people who foster a child:  It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster parents.2foster child/son/daughter a child who is fostered3foster brother/sister someone who has different parents from you, but who is being brought up in the same family4foster home a private home where a child is fostered
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foster

[ˈfɒstə(r)]fostered, fostering, fosters

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培养(57%),促进(26%),鼓励(8%),领养(5%),收养的(4%)
vt.培养;养育,抚育;抱(希望等)
adj.收养的,养育的
n.(Foster)人名;(英、捷、意、葡、法、德、俄、西)福斯特

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