foster是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 养育； 收养； 怀抱； 鼓励a. 收养的n. 养育者，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I supposed that for some reason or other and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not the heart to leave my charge; and besides, you know, I had been his foster sister, and excused his behaviour more readily than a stranger would.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So pretty soon he says: 'The man that bought him is named Abram Foster Abram G. Foster and he lives forty mile back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette.'
-- 'So clear out,' he says; 'and you can tell Mr. Foster what-ever you want to.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.
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