橘子朗文词典

foster

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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)

同根派生

  • n性質的同根詞
    fosterage：寄養；養育；助長。

英汉例句

    用作動詞 (v.)

    用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

  • Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
    現今年輕夫婦有時領養別人的孩子。

    • 用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

  • 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。

词组短语

    用作動詞 (v.)

    ～+名詞

  • 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

    • 短語

  • Stephen Foster 史蒂芬·福斯特;斯蒂芬·福斯特;福斯特;彿斯特

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (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

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • 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.