foment

英 [fəʊˈment]

美 [foʊˈment]

v.  挑起，激起，煽动(事端或暴力)

现在分词：fomenting　过去分词：fomented　过去式：fomented　复数：foments　第三人称单数：foments　

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BNC.24306 / COCA.22862

牛津词典

verb

• 挑起，激起，煽动（事端或暴力）
  to create trouble or violence or make it worse
  1. They accused him of fomenting political unrest.
     他们指控他煽动政治动乱。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 煽动，助长(事端或暴力)
  If someone or somethingfomentstrouble or violent opposition, they cause it to develop.
  1. They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
     他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。

英英释义

verb

• bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
  1. His legs should be fomented
• try to stir up public opinion
  Synonym:agitatestir up

双语例句

• Treatment of cervix vertebra disease with extradural block complicated with massage and foment and traction Supplemental drugs used in epidural block
  颈部硬膜外麻醉的应用颈部硬膜外阻滞加按摩、热敷牵引治疗颈椎病
• There is one, that's for sure! The devil alone can foment murders! Don't forget that, and be careful!
  可以肯定，有一个魔鬼！这个魔鬼可以制造凶案。别忘了这个，小心一些！
• S.and Kazakhstan, which have worried that his presence could foment a civil war in the Central Asian republic.
  他的离去受到了俄罗斯、美国和哈萨克斯坦的催促，这些国家担心他留在国内会引发一场内战。
• A deadly mix of falling prices and high leverage could foment a "debt-deflation" of the type first described by Irving Fisher, an American economist, in1933.
  1933年美国经济学家艾文费希尔首先提出债务通缩的概念，它是由价格下跌和高杠杆相互作用所产生的致命结果。
• I have written the book to try and help foment the various national conversations that must be had around the world about getting our fiscal houses ( and sanity) in order.
  我写的书，试图帮助挑起的，必须围绕关于恢复国内秩序的（和理智）财政房子世界有各种国家的对话。
• For one thing, high fuel prices can foment unrest, Burma being the latest case.
  首先，燃油价格高企可能会引发动荡，缅甸就是最新的例证。
• But does it contribute to robust public discussion or, instead, foment hatred and promote conflict?
  但是，这样做是有助于推动活跃的公共讨论，还是会煽动仇恨和助长冲突？
• The still-simmering possibility of previously unthinkable defaults by west European states continues to foment uncertainty.
  西欧国家的违约在以前是不可想象的，现如今，这种随时可能爆发的可能性则持续滋生着不确定性。
• They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
  他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。
• That formative reason otherwise than immediate natural factor, people activity of production& livelihood foment and aggravate development of urban geological question.
  其成因除最直接的自然因素所致外，还有人为不合理的生产和生活活动诱发而加剧城市地质问题的发生发展。