foster

柯林斯詞典

1. ADJ Foster parents 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 their foster child. 收養(yǎng)的[ADJ n]
Little Jack was placed with foster parents. 小杰克被安置在養(yǎng)父母家。
2. V-T If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent. 收養(yǎng)
She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children. 她此后又通過收養(yǎng)一百多個(gè)孩子找到了快樂。
3. V-T To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop. 促進(jìn)
He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies. 他說發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家有一種促進(jìn)全球經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)以幫助新興民主國(guó)家的責(zé)任。