foster /ˈfɒstə/ star2 CET6 TEM4 (fostering,fostered,fosters)

• 1.  

  ADJ（形容词） 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. 收养的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  Little Jack was placed with foster parents.

  小杰克被安置在养父母家。

• 2.  

  V-T（及物动词） If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent. 收养

  例：

  She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children.

  她此后又通过收养一百多个孩子找到了快乐。

• 3.  

  V-T（及物动词） To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop. 促进

  例：

  He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies.

  他说发达国家有一种促进全球经济增长以帮助新兴民主国家的责任。