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 past, EU money has actually fostered corruption.
  过去，欧盟的援助资金也确实助长了腐败。
• 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。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, the far-reaching industrial revolution fostered a new faith in the individual and his unlimited potential.
  与此同时，工业革命在个人和他们无限地潜能里产生了一个深渊的信念。
• 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。
• Face-to-face meetings have always fostered trust and clearer communication.
  面对面的会议，总是有助于增强信任，同时传达意思更清晰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。