foster的意思

基本释义

• v 培养；养育，抚育；抱（希望等）

  to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time

• adj 收养的，养育的

  Foster parents 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 their foster child.

• n (Foster)人名；(英、捷、意、葡、法、德、俄、西)福斯特

例句

1. The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.

   主教鼓励一种包容各个阶层的社区精神。

2. Little Jack was placed with foster parents.

   小杰克被安置在养父母家。

短语

• foster care 看护；照顾
• foster home 寄养家庭；抚养孤儿的家庭
• foster father 养父
• foster son n. 养子
• jodie foster n. 朱迪·福斯特（美国女演员）

近义词

同根词