单词	nurture
释义	nurture1 verbnurture2 noun nurturenur‧ture1 /ˈnɜːtʃə $ ˈnɜːrtʃər/ verb [transitive] formal Verb Table VERB TABLE nurture Simple Form Present I, you, we, they nurture he, she, it nurtures Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they nurtured Present perfect I, you, we, they have nurtured he, she, it has nurtured Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had nurtured Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will nurture Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have nurtured Continuous Form Present I am nurturing he, she, it is nurturing you, we, they are nurturing Past I, he, she, it was nurturing you, we, they were nurturing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been nurturing he, she, it has been nurturing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been nurturing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be nurturing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been nurturing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It is important to nurture potential in your employees. Reading aloud nurtures a love of books in children. The goal of the economic policies is to create jobs and nurture new industries. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A delicate plant, the Pinot Noir is difficult to nurture through the freezing cold winters of Champagne. From when I was very young, my father had nurtured a love of art in me. Giap was nurtured in this roil of rebellion. He wanted to make people aware of how beautiful the fish were and why they should be nurtured. I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it. In the I980s, the talk was all about developing, nurturing, and growing. One nurtures the plants and selects only the best varieties, discarding the rest. 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. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► carefully · And what have I become, with my white house, and my carefully nurtured life which now seems so self-regarding? NOUN► child · For those who knew, nurtured and loved the children involved, it must be nothing short of emotional torture.· There are no guarantees, no matter how much you nurture your children.· The task for parents is to nurture their children toward this academic self-sufficiency.· I do, however, believe we must recognize the enormous psychological resistance to the idea that fathers can nurture their children.· We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.· Even then he is dependent on the woman to love and nurture his child.· What of gay and lesbian adults who want to love and nurture a child? ► man · He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.· The men dream of nurturing and consoling; the women want the right to be tough and child-free.· Why should we force men to nurture if nurturing is so difficult for sheen? ► relationship · The impish Forrester scribbles pedagogic remarks all over Jamal's unformed jottings and a sparky, mutually nurturing relationship gets going.· He has nurtured close relationships with presidents of both parties. ► talent · Jabelman was privately educated, and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school. VERB► need · However, such a development would need nurturing, and there are few people with adequate expertise to nurture it.· But it needs to be nurtured.· Schools also need to nurture good citizens and people who can understand and appreciate the world around them.· Children and adolescents need experiences nurturing and providing care for smaller children and babies to prepare them for parenthood.· Old growth trees or persons are nurturers; the young saplings planted to replace them need nurturing. 1to help a plan, idea, feeling etc to develop:  European union is an ideal that has been nurtured since the post-war years. a hatred of foreigners nurtured by the media2to feed and take care of a child or a plant while it is growing:  plants nurtured in the greenhouseGRAMMAR Nurture is usually passive. nurture1 verbnurture2 noun nurturenurture2 noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINnurture2 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French norriture, from Late Latin nutritura, from Latin nutrire; ➔ NUTRIENT Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I have never been sure if it was nature or nurture. In other words, it is no longer nature versus nurture. She is creative of life and ongoing nurture. That nurture is more important than nature seems to be borne out by a study published in Nature in 1989. The antagonism between Nature and nurture controls their fate. This is known as the nature nurture controversy. With time, you can learn how to influence favorably this interplay of nature and nurture in your child. word sets WORD SETS► Children baby, nounbaby boomer, nounbabyhood, nounbabyish, adjectiveboy, nounchildren's home, nouncustody, nounfamily, nounfirst generation, nounfoundling, noungame, nounguttersnipe, nounhyperactive, adjectivelegitimate, adjectivelegitimize, verbminor, nounminority, nounmite, nounmotherless, adjectivenurture, nounorphan, nounorphanage, nounpapoose, nounpreteen, adjectiveprogeny, nounpuppy fat, nounragamuffin, nounscamp, nounschool friend, nounsextuplet, nounspoiled, adjectivetinker, nountoddle, verbtoddler, nountoilet-training, nountot, nounupbringing, nounurchin, nounward, noun the education and care that you are given as a child, and the way it affects your later development and attitudes
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