fosters

英 [ˈfɒstəz]

美 [ˈfɑːstərz]

v.  促进; 助长; 培养; 鼓励; 代养，抚育，照料(他人子女一段时间)
foster的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 寄养的;代养的
  Fosterparents 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 theirfosterchild.
  1. Little Jack was placed with foster parents...
     小杰克和养父母住在一起。
  2. 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 youfostera child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.
  1. 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
  Tofostersomething such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.
  1. 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。
  2. Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
     地产贬值引发了现金危机。

双语例句

• Snapchat is great because of the creativity it fosters.
  Snapchat之所以很出色是因为它激发了人们的创造力。
• Tourism fosters interest in other countries.
  旅游有助于提高对其它国家的兴趣。
• Too rigid parental control fosters rebellion in children.
  父母管教过严会促使子女反抗。
• It will have a governance structure that provides legitimacy and fosters trust and confidence.
  它的治理架构应该能支撑其合法性，并增进信任和信心。
• This topology fosters enterprisewide commonality of service definitions.
  这种拓扑形成了企业范围公共的服务定义。
• The lack of understanding fosters feelings of hatred between the two nations.
  缺乏了解助长两国之间的仇意。
• The result is a framework that embraces radical compromises and fosters radical productivity.
  结果就是这样一个框架：既有根本上的折衷，又促进了根本性的生产率改进。
• The president called foreign aid a handout that fosters dependence on wealthy nations.
  总统认为外援是不劳而获之财，会助长本国对富国的依赖性。
• Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles.
  幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。
• Fosters a critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed.
  培养对影像如何在我们的文化中被制造和建立的批判意识。