Foster
['fɒstə] or ['fɔstɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864).
(verb.) help develop, help grow; 'nurture his talents'.
(verb.) bring up under fosterage; of children.
(verb.) promote the growth of; 'Foster our children's well-being and education'.
(adj.) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; 'foster parent'; 'foster child'; 'foster home'; 'surrogate father' .
整理:薇尔玛--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
整理:奥利维亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Nurse, nourish, feed, support, sustain, bring up, rear up.[2]. Cherish, encourage, favor, promote, stimulate, forward, further, advance, help on, help forward.
弗洛伊德手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CHERISH]
錄入:纳丁
解釋/意思:
n. (Spens.) a forester.
v.t. to bring up or nurse: to encourage.—ns. Fos′terāge the act of fostering or nursing; Fos′ter-broth′er a male child fostered or brought up with another of different parents; Fos′ter-child a child nursed or brought up by one who is not its parent; Fos′ter-daugh′ter; Fos′terer; Fos′ter-fa′ther one who brings up a child in place of its father; Fos′terling a foster-child; Fos′ter-moth′er one who suckles a child not her own; Fos′ter-nurse (Shak.) a nurse; Fos′ter-par′ent one who rears a child in the place of its parent; Fos′ter-sis′ter one brought up as a sister by the same parents but not a sister by birth; Fos′ter-son one brought up as a son though not a son by birth.
整理:维维安
例句/造句/用法:
- Their maintainers and foster-fathers. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Foster now relieved Burnside. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Charleston was evacuated on the 18th of February, and Foster garrisoned the place. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He is suffered to reclaim his own, and so to foster and aid that it shall not perish hopeless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- GRANT: General Foster has asked to be relieved from his command on account of disability from old wounds. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- EGYPT, 25 00 B.C. Medicine, which is almost certain to develop in the early history of a people in response to their urgent needs, has been justly called the foster-mother of many sciences. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Foster was then commanding the Department of the Ohio. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is not surprising that so many political inventions have been made within these movements, fostered by them, and brought to a general public notice through their efforts. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As we have earlier noted, this notion was fostered by the new interest in education as method of social reform. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Their acquisition is fostered of course by conscious intent, but self-deception is very easy. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The therns fear the awful denizens of this cruel and hopeless world that they have fostered and allowed to grow beneath their feet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- But the Germans could never hold Italy permanently, because they could not stand the malaria that the ruined, neglected, undrained country fostered. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Part icular attention was paid to the trades, the mechanic arts, and the fostering of inventions. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I see the difficulty, I replied; yet the fostering of such a belief will make them care more for the city and for one another. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But the plant needs fostering, and I, the gardener, alas! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There is something in the air of this clime which fosters life kindly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
編輯:罗伊