foster

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fos·ter1 /ˈfɒstə $ ˈfɑːstər/ verb

1 [transitiveT]HELP to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time 促進，培養，助長 SYN encourage, promote

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

主教鼓勵一種包容各個階層的社區精神。

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]FAMILY to take someone else’s child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their legal parent 〔在一段時間内〕撫育，代養〔别人的孩子〕 → adopt

The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering.

那對夫婦想收養他們代養的一個黑人小孩。

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foster• The Hammonds fostered a little Romanian boy for a few months.• The sequential maturation of the intellectual and social aspects fosters a sense of assurance in the child and acceptance by others.• Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.• Might which controls and appropriates solely for self fosters an appetite for even more power.• Reiteration of a decade-old deception could not fail to foster an enhanced sense of futility.• The workshops can foster better communication between husbands and wives.• During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town.• These classroom activities are intended to foster children's language skills.• Recent studies show that advertising usually fosters competition and therefore lower prices.• The care programme approach was seen to foster dependency in two ways, on the part of clients and on the part of staff.• Social networks, for example, might be fostered for those at risk of becoming isolated.• In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat.• Planning policies of concentration have fostered this, sometimes to facilitate the provision of amenities and services to housing.• Guideline 7: Show your affection and foster your child's love and respect.

foster2 adjectiveadj

1 foster mother/father/parents FAMILYthe people who foster a child 養母/養父/養父母

It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster parents.

有時很難找到合適的養父母。

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foster mother/father/parents• News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.• The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents.• The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents.• By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council.• On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.• His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home.• Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten.• The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united.

2. foster child/son/daughter FAMILYa child who is fostered 養子[女]/養子/養女

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foster child/son/daughter• Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.• The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.• These foster children are not available for adoption.• These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.• As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.• And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.• Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.

3. foster brother/sister someone who has different parents from you, but who is being brought up in the same family 義兄[弟]/義姐[妹]

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foster brother/sister• The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.• I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny.• Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?• She knew her foster brother was unreliable.

4. foster home SSCa private home where a child is fostered 寄養家庭

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foster home• Another boy is in a regular private foster home.• Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.• Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.• She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.• When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.• For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.• This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.• All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.

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foster• two New York subway cops who are also foster brothers• Hospital documents had begun showing recommendations that Jackie be placed in foster care as early as 1973.• Half a million American children are in foster care at any given time.• She finally adopted her foster-child, six-year old Shania.• Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.• These foster children are not available for adoption.• As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.• Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.• She added to her regular income by taking in foster-children.• There was greater contentment there than within the average hostel or foster home and most certainly a greater sense of personal fulfilment.• Steve went to live in a series of foster homes.• He ran away after his foster-mother accused him of stealing.• It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster-parents for a lively ten-year-old.• The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance - it was now up to him to take it.• The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.

Origin foster2

Old English fostor-, from fostor “food, feeding”

fos·ter1 verbfoster2 adjectiveadj

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