Foster

(noun.) United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864).

(verb.) help develop, help grow; 'nurture his talents'.

(verb.) bring up under fosterage; of children.

(verb.) promote the growth of; 'Foster our children's well-being and education'.

(adj.) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; 'foster parent'; 'foster child'; 'foster home'; 'surrogate father' .

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• Their maintainers and foster-fathers. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Foster now relieved Burnside. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Charleston was evacuated on the 18th of February, and Foster garrisoned the place. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He is suffered to reclaim his own, and so to foster and aid that it shall not perish hopeless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• GRANT: General Foster has asked to be relieved from his command on account of disability from old wounds. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• EGYPT, 25 00 B.C. Medicine, which is almost certain to develop in the early history of a people in response to their urgent needs, has been justly called the foster-mother of many sciences. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Foster was then commanding the Department of the Ohio. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is not surprising that so many political inventions have been made within these movements, fostered by them, and brought to a general public notice through their efforts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As we have earlier noted, this notion was fostered by the new interest in education as method of social reform. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Their acquisition is fostered of course by conscious intent, but self-deception is very easy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The therns fear the awful denizens of this cruel and hopeless world that they have fostered and allowed to grow beneath their feet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But the Germans could never hold Italy permanently, because they could not stand the malaria that the ruined, neglected, undrained country fostered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Part icular attention was paid to the trades, the mechanic arts, and the fostering of inventions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I see the difficulty, I replied; yet the fostering of such a belief will make them care more for the city and for one another. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But the plant needs fostering, and I, the gardener, alas! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There is something in the air of this clime which fosters life kindly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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