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

• E-mail enhances personal initiative and responsibility in an environment that fosters discussion.
  在一个鼓励讨论的环境中，电子信函提高了人们的主动性和责任感。
• Humor fosters acceptance of our humanness and our foibles.
  幽默会培养我们人性和弱点上的接受程度。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Combining his interest with daily activities fosters more inspired and innovative solutions.
  将他的兴趣与日常活动相结合可以孕育更有灵感且更创新的解决方案。
• This not only fosters greater innovation but more creativity.
  这不仅有希望实现更大的创新，而且会提高创造力。
• This topology fosters enterprisewide commonality of service definitions.
  这种拓扑形成了企业范围公共的服务定义。
• It erodes self-awareness and self-restraint, and fosters self-indulgence.
  它降低了自知之明，消磨了自制力，让人变得放纵。
• This fosters a solid partnership, which, of course, is facilitated by effective project management.
  这就促进了一种，当然，由有效项目管理所带来的稳固的伙伴（协作）关系。