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

• Instead, we fostered an even grander, greedier, more systemic scandal.
  我们反而酿造了一个更大、更贪婪且更系统性的丑闻。
• 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。
• Mary eventually left Miami, obtained a good education, and fostered her natural music ability.
  玛丽最终离开了迈阿密，获得了良好的教育，并发展了她的音乐天赋。
• The War and Navy departments each accumulated growing prestige which fostered the spirit of the old school tie.
  陆军部和海军部各自积累了不断增长的威望，这种威望培育了小集团主义精神。
• "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。
• The values asserting collective interest fostered in China the spiritual tradition of patriotism and collectivism.
  注重整体利益的价值取向培育了中华民族的爱国主义和集体主义的精神传统。
• 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。
• 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。
• First, it has fostered a growth point of the national economy.
  首先，培育了国民经济新的增长点。
• In Latin America, global competition has fostered productivity gains in manufacturing and non-traditional agriculture.
  在拉美，全球竞争推动了制造业和非传统农业生产率的提高。