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    foster 的英语意思

    fosterfoster1 /ˈfɒstə $ ˈfɑːstər/ verb 查看全部语言翻译1[transitive] to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time促进(技能、情感、想法等)在一段时间内逐渐发展 SYN  encourage, promote:  The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.主教帮助培育了一种涵盖各阶层的社区意识。2[intransitive, transitive] to take someone else’s child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their legal parent将他人的孩子暂时接纳入家庭,但不成为其法定父母adopt:  The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering.这对夫妇想要正式收养他们一直寄养的一名黑人孩子。
    fosterfoster2 adjective 1foster mother/father/parents the people who foster a child寄养孩子的人:  It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster parents.有时候很难找到合适的寄养父母。2foster child/son/daughter a child who is fostered被寄养的孩子3foster brother/sister someone who has different parents from you, but who is being brought up in the same family与你父母不同但在同一家庭中被抚养的人4foster home a private home where a child is fostered孩子被寄养的私人家庭