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foster

verb
 
/ˈfɒstə(r)/
/ˈfɑːstər/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they foster
/ˈfɒstə(r)/
/ˈfɑːstər/
he / she / it fosters
/ˈfɒstəz/
/ˈfɑːstərz/
past simple fostered
/ˈfɒstəd/
/ˈfɑːstərd/
past participle fostered
/ˈfɒstəd/
/ˈfɑːstərd/
-ing form fostering
/ˈfɒstərɪŋ/
/ˈfɑːstərɪŋ/
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  1.  
    [transitive] foster something to encourage something to develop促進；助長；培養；鼓勵 synonym encourage, promote
    • The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.俱樂部的宗旨是促進團體内部的關系。
    Extra Examples
    • The school has carefully fostered its progressive image.該校精心打造了一個開明進步的形象。
    • Such organizations need to foster innovation.這些組織需要促進創新。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • carefully
    • deliberately
    verb + foster
    • help (to)
    • be designed to
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  2.  
    [transitive, intransitive] foster (somebody) (especially British English) to take another person’s child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents代養，撫育，照料（他人子女一段時間）
    • They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years.在過去十年間，他們撫育了 60 多個兒童。
    • We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.我們不能領養孩子，所以決定代養一個。
    Collocations ChildrenChildren孩子Having a baby/​child懷孕
    • want a baby/​a child/​kids想要孩子
    • start a family生孩子
    • conceive/​be expecting/​be going to have a baby/​child懷孕
    • miss your period月經未按期來
    • become/​get/​be/​find out that you are pregnant懷孕了；發現懷孕了
    • have a baby/​a child/​kids/​a son/​a daughter/​twins/​a family有一個寶寶／一個孩子／孩子／一個兒子／一個女兒／一對雙胞胎／孩子
    • have a normal/​a difficult/​an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/​a difficult/​a home birth正常／歷經艱難／意外懷孕；順産；難産；在家中分娩
    • be in/​go into/​induce labour (especially US English) labor分娩；催産
    • have/​suffer/​cause a miscarriage流産；引起流産
    • give birth to a child/​baby/​daughter/​son/​twins生了一個孩子／一個寶寶／一個女兒／一個兒子／一對雙胞胎
    Parenting養育；撫養；教養
    • bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/​family撫養孩子
    • care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/​child/​kid照顧小孩
    • change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/​a baby換尿布；給嬰兒換尿布
    • feed/​breastfeed/​bottle-feed a baby喂孩子；給孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂養孩子
    • be entitled to/​go on maternity/​paternity leave有權利休／正在休産假／陪産假
    • go back/​return to work after maternity leave産假後回到工作崗位
    • need/​find/​get a babysitter/​good quality affordable childcare需要／找到一個臨時保姆／負擔得起的高質量兒童保育
    • balance/​combine work and childcare/​child-rearing/​family life平衡／兼顧工作與照顧小孩／撫養小孩／家庭生活
    • educate/​teach/​home-school a child/​kid教育孩子；給孩子家庭教育
    • punish/​discipline/​spoil a child/​kid懲罰／管教／嬌慣孩子
    • adopt a baby/​child/​kid收養小孩
    • offer a baby for/​put a baby up for adoption把小孩給人收養
    • (especially British English) foster a child/​kid代養小孩
    • be placed with/​be raised by foster parents被交給寄養父母；由寄養父母撫養
    compare adoptTopics Life stagesc1, Family and relationshipsc1
    3. Word OriginOld English fōstrian ‘feed, nourish’, from fōster ‘food, nourishment’, of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense ‘bring up another's (originally also one's own) child’ dates from Middle English.

foster

adjective
/ˈfɒstə(r)/
/ˈfɑːstər/
[only before noun]
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  1. used with some nouns in connection with the fostering of a child（與某些代養有關的名詞連用）
    • a foster mother/father/family代養母親／父親；代養的家庭
    • foster parents代養父母
    • a foster child代養的小孩
    • a foster home寄養家庭
    • The children were placed in foster care.孩子們被寄養。
    Word OriginOld English fōstrian ‘feed, nourish’, from fōster ‘food, nourishment’, of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense ‘bring up another's (originally also one's own) child’ dates from Middle English.

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