foster

英 ['f?st?] 美['f?st?]

GRECET6TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL中低頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱單數:?fosters;過去式:?fostered;過去分詞:?fostered;現在分詞:?fostering;

1. The etymological notion underlying foster is of 'giving food'.
2. food => foster, food => fodder.
3. 三個同源詞：food, fodder, foster.

foster 養育，鼓勵

來自food,喂養，食物。

foster: foster: [OE] The etymological notion underlying foster is of ‘giving food’. Indeed, the Old English verb fōstrian meant ‘feed, nourish’, and it was not until the 13th century that secondary metaphorical senses, such as ‘rear a child’ and ‘encourage, cultivate’, began to emerge. It was a derivative of the Old English noun fōstor ‘food’, which in turn was formed from the same Germanic source, *fōth-, as produced English food.
=> food
foster (v.): Old English *fostrian "to supply with food, nourish, support," from fostor "food, nourishment, bringing up," from Proto-Germanic *fostra-, from extended form of PIE root *pa- "to protect; feed" (see food).

Meaning "to bring up a child with parental care" is from c. 1200; that of "to encourage or help grow" is early 13c. of things; 1560s of feelings, ideas, etc. Old English also had the word as an adjective meaning "in the same family but not related," in fostorf?der, fostorcild, fostormodoretc. Related: Fostered; fostering.

1. The children were waiting for placement in a foster care home.: 這些孩子在撫育院等待安置。

2. They suspected that Neville had traded secret information with Mr Foster.: 他們懷疑內維爾和福斯特先生交換了秘密情報。

3. Mason was uninhibited in his questions about Foster's family.: 梅森就福斯特的家庭毫無顧忌地發問。