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
- 美式发音
基本解释
- v. 促進;撫育(他人子女一段時間);收養;把(孩子)交托給養父母
- adj. 代養的,寄養的
- n. (Foster) 福斯特(人名)
词源解说
- 直接源自古英語的fostrian,意爲供給食物,養料等;最初源自原始日耳曼語的fostrom。
词根记忆
- 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
- 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(foster)了一個被遺棄在森林(forest)裡的孩子
- bolster(v.支持)
英汉例句
- Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
現今年輕夫婦有時領養別人的孩子。 - 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。
用作動詞 (v.)
用作不及物動詞: S+~(+A)
用作及物動詞: S+~+ n./pron.
词组短语
- foster a child 收養孩子
- foster an attitude 滋長某種情緒
- foster an impression 加深印象
- foster an interest 培養興趣
- foster inflation 刺激通貨膨脹
- Stephen Foster 史蒂芬·福斯特;斯蒂芬·福斯特;福斯特;彿斯特
用作動詞 (v.)
~+名詞
短語
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
- 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.