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foster-child

寄养儿童,养子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
    • : a needy child, as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.

Examples

  • It meant her foster children could avoid some awkward conversations.

  • About 3% of same-sex couples are raising a foster child and more than 21% are raising an adopted child, making them seven times more likely than different-sex couples to be raising an adopted child.

  • Group home providers serving foster children were required to obtain short-term residential therapeutic program licenses under the new state law.

  • Allie is an abused foster child in the southern US who specializes, when her power comes, in control.

  • She’d anticipated that any foster child she had would be in school, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.

  • The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

  • Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.

  • A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.

  • You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.

  • He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.

  • This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.

  • The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.

  • In Luke it is said, “And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom.”