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

• In business, competition fosters innovation.
  在业务方面，竞争可以促进创新。
• Mentoring is a developmental relationship that fosters personal and professional growth.
  导师制这种发展性的关系可以加快员工个人及其职业的发展。
• Ideally, the workplace fosters equality, collaboration and teamwork.
  而理想的职场下应该是平等、团队与协作。
• 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。
• This fosters a creative research community.
  这培育了一个创造性的科研界。
• Tourism fosters interest in other countries.
  旅游有助于提高对其它国家的兴趣。
• The president called foreign aid a handout that fosters dependence on wealthy nations.
  总统认为外援是不劳而获之财，会助长本国对富国的依赖性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。