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

• This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music.
  本课程通过了解和感悟西方音乐来学习各种听力技巧。
• Tourism fosters interest in other countries.
  旅游有助于提高对其它国家的兴趣。
• SDO provides a neutral representation of business data, fosters a datasource-agnostic model, and promotes loose coupling.
  SDO为业务数据提供了一种中立的表示方法，建立了一种与数据源无关的模型，降低了耦合度。
• 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。
• Travel between our countries fosters improved understanding between our two peoples and facilitates cooperation and collaboration in every field.
  我们两国之间的来往促进我们两国人民之间的相互理解并促进了两国在各个领域的合作和协作。
• 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。
• Mentoring is a developmental relationship that fosters personal and professional growth.
  导师制这种发展性的关系可以加快员工个人及其职业的发展。
• The lack of understanding fosters feelings of hatred between the two nations.
  缺乏了解助长两国之间的仇意。
• 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。
• The president called foreign aid a handout that fosters dependence on wealthy nations.
  总统认为外援是不劳而获之财，会助长本国对富国的依赖性。