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

• 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。
• Globalisation has also fostered the communications networks that allow ideas and images of revolt to skip around the world.
  全球化还培育了一个沟通网络，从而使得反抗的想法与图像得以在全球快速传播。
• 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。
• Within the bank, he fostered an intense management culture that prized discipline and attention to detail.
  在苏格兰皇家银行银行内部，他建立了一种紧张的管理文化，重视纪律和对细节的关注。
• Genetic research should be fostered and developed to offer revolutionary treatment and therapies.
  我们应该大力促进和发展遗传研究，以提供革命性的治疗方法。
• "People interaction is encouraged and fostered by the design," he says.
  他说：这样的设计鼓励并培养人们的相互交往。
• 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。
• Do you believe love can be fostered?
  你相信爱可以培养么？
• The development of the environmental protection industry has been fostered.
  扶植环境保护产业的发展。
• In the past, EU money has actually fostered corruption.
  过去，欧盟的援助资金也确实助长了腐败。