单词	foster
释义	foster1 verbfoster2 adjective fosterfos‧ter1 /ˈfɒstə $ ˈfɑːstər/ ●○○ verb Verb Table VERB TABLE foster Simple Form Present I, you, we, they foster he, she, it fosters Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they fostered Present perfect I, you, we, they have fostered he, she, it has fostered Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had fostered Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will foster Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have fostered Continuous Form Present I am fostering he, she, it is fostering you, we, they are fostering Past I, he, she, it was fostering you, we, they were fostering Present perfect I, you, we, they have been fostering he, she, it has been fostering Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been fostering Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be fostering Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been fostering Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child. During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town. Recent studies show that advertising usually fosters competition and therefore lower prices. The Hammonds fostered a little Romanian boy for a few months. The workshops can foster better communication between husbands and wives. These classroom activities are intended to foster children's language skills. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Guideline 7: Show your affection and foster your child's love and respect. In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat. Might which controls and appropriates solely for self fosters an appetite for even more power. Planning policies of concentration have fostered this, sometimes to facilitate the provision of amenities and services to housing. Reiteration of a decade-old deception could not fail to foster an enhanced sense of futility. Social networks, for example, might be fostered for those at risk of becoming isolated. The care programme approach was seen to foster dependency in two ways, on the part of clients and on the part of staff. The sequential maturation of the intellectual and social aspects fosters a sense of assurance in the child and acceptance by others. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto help something to develop► nurture written to spend a lot of time and effort thinking about and helping a plan, idea, feeling etc to develop: · The goal of the economic policies is to create jobs and nurture new industries.· It is important to nurture potential in your employees. ► foster written to help a skill, feeling, idea etc to grow and develop over a period of time: · These classroom activities are intended to foster children's language skills.· Recent studies show that advertising usually fosters competition and therefore lower prices. to look after a child who is not your own for a long time► adopt to legally and permanently take someone else's child into your family and treat them as one of your own children: · Chinese babies are the favorite choice of Americans adopting children from abroad.· She had hoped to get pregnant, but when she failed, she and her husband decided to adopt.· He discovered that his guardian, Aunt Mimi, had not legally adopted him.· Teenagers who discover they were adopted often search for their biological parents when they are old enough. ► foster to take another person's child into your own family and look after them for a period of several weeks, months, or years, but without becoming their legal parent: · Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.· During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town. ► guardian a person who has been legally appointed to look after a child whose parents are away or dead, or to look after someone who is too ill to be responsible for themselves: · The court must obtain the consent of the child's parent or guardian.· Children under 17 will only be admitted in the company of a parent or adult guardian.· Could you contact Mrs Smith's guardians and tell them she's been admitted to hospital?legal guardian: · When Sara was 7, Aunt Maggie became her legal guardian. ► in care British a child who is in care does not live with his or her parents but is looked after in a special home paid for by the local council, for example because their own parents are dead or could not look after them properly: · Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves.· The number of children in care in Oxfordshire is falling. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a foster parent (=someone who has other people's children living with them)· Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► attitude · This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.· To foster desirable attitudes and change behaviour. 8. to allow experts into the classroom. 9. ► child · The children were taken to foster homes where they will be kept until a determination can be made about their future.· Under the 1958 Children Act, local authorities have a duty to ensure the well-being of children who are fostered privately. ► development · They fostered the development of a new, urban, cultural tradition.· Some inherent dilemmas in boss-subordinate relationships can undermine their capacity to foster development.· What can be said is that the Basic Law has not hindered but has indeed fostered the development of political practice. ► government · In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises.· In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth.· The heads of government also promised to foster equality for women, and universal access to education.· This is an example of government efforts to foster new initiatives by creating an agency outside of direct central political control. ► growth · To foster growth such resources must be developed, but this, however, necessitates increased investment.· They liked books and ideas, and they liked to talk about them in ways that fostered growth rather than established dominance.· The follow-through not only helps children meet their responsibility, it also fosters the growth of good work habits and autonomy.· In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth. ► illusion · Political warfare fosters the illusion of an active system full of excitement and competition. ► relationship · And, as we have already seen, it is the Bible's function to feed and foster such a relationship.· In all this, music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations.· Achievement provides most of the stroking and fosters the relationship.· Our aim should be to foster more equal relationships with disabled people. ► spirit · Directors also strive to foster a cooperative spirit and friendly attitude among employees and a compassionate demeanor toward the families.· A J Lubin does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him. 1[transitive] to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time SYN  encourage, promote:  The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.2[intransitive, transitive] to take someone else’s child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their legal parent → adopt:  The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering. foster1 verbfoster2 adjective fosterfoster2 ●○○ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINfoster2 Origin: Old English fostor-, from fostor ‘food, feeding’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Half a million American children are in foster care at any given time. 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. She added to her regular income by taking in foster-children. She finally adopted her foster-child, six-year old Shania. Steve went to live in a series of foster homes. two New York subway cops who are also foster brothers EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years. Hospital documents had begun showing recommendations that Jackie be placed in foster care as early as 1973. Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities. Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic. The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents. The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance - it was now up to him to take it. There was greater contentment there than within the average hostel or foster home and most certainly a greater sense of personal fulfilment. These foster children are not available for adoption. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a foster parent (=someone who has other people's children living with them)· Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► brother · The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.· She knew her foster brother was unreliable. ► care · There, Rita says, she will take parenting classes to get her son back from foster care.· As infants in foster care, both girls had suffered physically and emotionally.· And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females?· As it turned out, John and his sister had been through some twenty-three moves in foster care.· Young people in children's homes or foster care are deprived of books and the opportunity to share books with adults.· Her children were placed in foster care and she had no place to go.· They never put us in foster care.· Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it. ► child · Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.· As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.· You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.· These foster children are not available for adoption.· It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife.· Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities. ► daughter · Down through the garden came servants and foster daughters carrying the cases of engagement presents and the engagement jewels.· Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.· It was Amina, one of the Sheikha's foster daughters.· April: The good foster daughter.· The second foster daughter soon followed, coming in with a bound.· The Plot A long time ago, a witch had an evil and ugly daughter and a good and beautiful foster daughter. ► family · Children under 13 years in Flanders tend to be placed with foster families rather than in residential care.· They will be cared for by a foster family while a court in Missouri decides where they should make their permanent home.· The children, many of them orphans, were to have spent Christmas with 60 foster families in Wigan and Leeds.· During the next few months, Gilly starts to become very fond of her new foster family. ► father · The hand, of course, belonged to her great-uncle and foster father.· His foster father, who is his uncle, stated that Jimmy may have some learning disabilities.· Foster father reports that Jimmy is worried about his uncle, foster father, dying. ► home · This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.· It relies on foster homes to provide rescued pets a supportive place to recover until good owners can be found.· She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.· Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.· Carlie had to go to the foster home because she couldn't get along with her stepfather.· The next day they came back and removed him to a temporary foster home.· All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.· When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home. ► parent · On 13 December 1991 emergency protection orders were made and the children were placed with foster parents.· Apparently I was not the only prospective foster parent who was treated by society staff like a pariah.· On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.· Another revelation: enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents, either by temperament or circumstances.· There is also the proximity of the proposed foster parents and her own siblings.· The eight-month-old baby is recovering with Middlesbrough foster parents following the operation to remove water from the brain.· The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.· He thought that preferable to the child's being in an institution or with foster parents. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► foster mother/father/parents By then, the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council. His foster parents say they're giving him a break from events back home. News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents. On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed. Richard had been passed from one set of foster parents to another until he was ten. The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents. The girl, who was with foster parents, wanted her family re-united. The sisters were separated, Lore working as a maid and the others going to foster parents. ► foster child/son/daughter And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children. 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. 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. ► foster brother/sister Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say? I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny. She knew her foster brother was unreliable. The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers. ► foster home All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families. Another boy is in a regular private foster home. For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to 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. This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable. When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home. 1foster mother/father/parents the people who foster a child:  It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster parents.2foster child/son/daughter a child who is fostered3foster brother/sister someone who has different parents from you, but who is being brought up in the same family4foster home a private home where a child is fostered
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