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

• The functional part of stupidity lubricates the work process and fosters greater certainty and a happier atmosphere.
  愚蠢的功能性润滑了工作流程，有助于营造更大的确定性，并让工作氛围更为融洽。
• This increases transparency, collateral thinking and fosters an area of innovation.
  这可以增加透明度、附属思想，并鼓励在某一领域创新。
• 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 fosters awareness as well as reusability of business services that are developed by different business domains.
  这促进了对由不同业务域开发的业务服务的理解和责任。
• This fosters a solid partnership, which, of course, is facilitated by effective project management.
  这就促进了一种，当然，由有效项目管理所带来的稳固的伙伴（协作）关系。
• E-mail enhances personal initiative and responsibility in an environment that fosters discussion.
  在一个鼓励讨论的环境中，电子信函提高了人们的主动性和责任感。
• Their mutual need for emotional security fosters extreme loyalty to one another.
  双方对于情感安全的需要让这对鸳鸯极为忠诚。
• It erodes self-awareness and self-restraint, and fosters self-indulgence.
  它降低了自知之明，消磨了自制力，让人变得放纵。
• Communities: Creates common areas of collaboration and fosters innovation through a set of people interested in common objectives.
  Communities：创建协作的公共区域，鼓励对共同目标感兴趣的一组人员进行创新。
• 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。