Foster

(v)

1. to encourage sth to develop 促进；助长；培养；鼓励

(syn) encourage, promote

e.g. The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.

俱乐部的宗旨是促进团体内部更好的关系。

2. (especially BrE) to take another person's child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents. 代养，抚育，照料（他人子女一段时间）

e.g. They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years.

在过去十年间，他们抚育了60多个儿童。

e.g. We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.

我们不能领养孩子，所以决定代养一个。

(a)

used with some nouns in connection with the fostering of a child （与某些代养小孩有关的名词连用）

e.g. a foster mother/father/family

代养母/父；代养的家庭

e.g. foster parents

代养家庭

e.g. foster care

寄养照管

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