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Foster Child Family Period Time Legal Verb 英[ˈfɒstə(R

单词 foster
音标
英[ˈfɒstə(r)] 美[ˈfɔstə(r)]
解释
v.培养;抚育;促进;代养;adj.寄养的;代养的;
例句

ADJ
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.
例:Little Jack was placed with foster parents...小杰克和养父母住在一起。
例:The foster mother was a wonderful, warm person.寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。

VERB
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.
例: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。

VERB
促进;鼓励;培养
To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.
例: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。
例:Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.地产贬值引发了现金危机。
变形
third:fosters~done:fostered~ing:fostering~past:fostered~

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