foster
单词辨析：
指收养他人孩子的，只作定语。
Mr. Green is Jane's adoptive father.
格林先生是简的养父。
She has to take care of her adoptive mother.
她必须照顾养母。
一般作定语，既可指“被收养的（adopted）”，也可指“收养孩子的（adoptive）”。
the foster father/mother/parents
养父/养母/养父母
the foster children/daughter/son
养子女/养女/养子
a foster home
寄养家庭
My foster father treated me as his own son.
我养父待我如同亲生。
foster brother/sister 意为“义兄弟/义姐妹”。
通常指照顾生病、受伤、年迈的人。
After his injury, Mrs Miles nursed him back to health.
他受伤后，迈尔斯夫人照料他恢复了健康。
She spends all her time nursing her old mother.
她全部的时间都用来照料年迈的母亲。
指在一段时间内替他人照顾孩子，但法律上并未成为孩子的父母。
We fostered the young girl while her mother was in hospital.
她母亲住院时，我们照顾这个小女孩。
The couple adopted the black child they had been fostering.
那对夫妇收养了他们一直代养的黑人小孩。
指照料处于生长发育阶段的孩子或植物。
Those young parents often discuss the best way to nurture their children.
那些年轻的父母经常讨论养育孩子的最佳方法。
These plants should be nurtured in the greenhouse.
这些植物应该在温室里培育。
相关例句：
After due consideration it was decided to send him away to live with foster parents
充分考虑之后决定将他送到养父母那儿生活。
Raise design standards and foster design-related education;
提高设计水平和推动与设计有关的教育；
We are looking for foster carers who can care for a child for a few days
我们在找寄养家庭，帮忙照看一个孩子几天。
Nowaday young couple sometimes foster.
现今年轻夫妇有时领养别人的孩子。
She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children.
从那以后她代养了100多个孩子，并从中得到快乐。
Girls are encouraged to play with toys that foster language and human relations skills.
鼓励女孩玩玩具的语言和技能的培养人际关系。