foster

verb

1. help develop, help grow

e.g. nurture his talents

Synonym: nurture

2. bring up under fosterage
of children

3. promote the growth of

e.g. Foster our children's well-being and education

Synonym: further

adj

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

e.g. foster parent
foster child
foster home
surrogate father

Synonym: surrogate

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 their foster child.

e.g. Little Jack was placed with foster parents...
小杰克和养父母住在一起。
e.g. The foster 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 you foster 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
To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.

e.g. 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。
e.g. Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
地产贬值引发了现金危机。

1. 培育："创新生态学研究的是关于鼓励(encourage)、培育(foster)和催化(catalyse)创新思想和理念,并能使其转化为有价值的工作环境. 创新生态学倡导和支持个人、团队和所有机构为经济可持续发展开展研究工作.

2. 收养的：则可记成:秋季(autumn)的专栏(column)(记忆窍门)由于词尾都是 ought , 则可记成: 干旱季节(drought)已到来, 节水思想(thought)很重要(记忆窍门)由于词尾都是 ster ,则可记成:妹妹(sister)是收养的(foster)(记忆窍门)由于词尾都是 nder,

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