foster详细意思

1. 养育的
2. 收养的，领养的，寄养的
3. 照顾孤儿的

1. 养父母
2. 福斯特（音译名）

1. 扶植，培养
2. 心怀，怀抱，抱有（希望等)
3. 助长，促进（发育）
4. 养育，抚育，孕育，抚养
5. 提倡
6. 领养，收养
7. 代养，抚育（他人子女一段时间）
8. 激励，鼓励

1. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-18)

1. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;

   "foster parent"
   "foster child"
   "foster home"
   "surrogate father"
   

1. promote the growth of;

   "Foster our children's well-being and education"
   

2. bring up under fosterage; of children
3. help develop, help grow;

   "nurture his talents"
   

1.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 theirfoster child.

e.g. Little Jack was placed withfoster parents...
小杰克和养父母住在一起。
e.g. Thefoster mother was a wonderful, warm person.
寄养母是一个很不错的热心人。

2.寄养;代养
If youfoster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.

e.g. 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。

3.促进;鼓励;培养
Tofoster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.

e.g. He said that developed countries had a responsibility tofoster 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。
e.g. Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
地产贬值引发了现金危机。

1. Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
   现今年轻夫妇有时领养别人的孩子。

1. 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。
2. The captain did his best to foster a sense of unity among the new recruits.
   队长尽力培养新成员之间的团结精神。
3. Ignorance fosters superstition.
   无知助长迷信。

• My idea of happiness was to have a family...Even an adoptive or foster family would have sufficed.

  出自：M. Forster

• One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes.

  出自：Cymbeline,Shakespeare

• ☆ 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。