fostered

英 [ˈfɒstəd]

美 [ˈfɑːstərd]

v.  促进; 助长; 培养; 鼓励; 代养，抚育，照料(他人子女一段时间)
foster的过去分词和过去式

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

• Mentally she remained in utter stagnation, a condition which the mechanical occupation rather fostered than checked.
  在精神上，她仍然停留在一种完全停滞的状态中，她做的一些机械性的工作不仅没有消除这种状态，相反助长了这种状态。
• He said this was essential to preserve the peace and cohesion fostered by the deceased president.
  他说，保持已逝总统创造的和平和团结是非常必要的。
• This has fostered new world-class companies that are now expanding abroad to serve larger and richer markets.
  这培养出了新的世界级企业，它们如今正向海外扩张，以求服务于更大更富裕的市场。
• This illusion has been sedulously fostered.
  这些幻想得到了很好的培养。
• The paper highlights another aspect of this story, according to which, technological forces fostered cultural changes.
  本文强调这个故事的另一个方面，那就是技术力量促进了文化变革。
• And I was fostered an interest in music from him.
  我对音乐的兴趣，就是父亲培养的。
• In the realm of private business, the EU has fostered competition in markets for capital and goods.
  在私有商业领域，欧盟已为资本和商品市场培育了竞争机制。
• China is one of the countries who initiated and fostered East Asian cooperation.
  中国是最早倡导和支援东亚合作的国家之一。
• Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
  地产贬值引发了现金危机。
• The development of the environmental protection industry has been fostered.
  扶植环境保护产业的发展。