“foster、child”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

foster-child

释义

ˈfoster-child
[OE. fóstercild, f. foster n.¹]
A child as related to persons who have reared it as their own, or (esp. in Ireland and the Highlands) to its wet-nurse and her husband; a nursling.
a1200Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 538 Alumnus, fostercild.1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 33, I avow, by this most sacred head Of my deare foster childe, to ease thy griefe.1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 135 The foster-children do love, and are beloved of their foster-fathers.1717Addison Ovid's Met. iii. 346 The Goddess thus beguil'd, With pleasing Stories, her false Foster-child.1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiv, Torquil, who entertained for his foster-child even a double portion of that passionate fondness.
fig.1820Keats Ode on Grecian Urn 2 Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.1846H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. iv. 153 Leibnitz..[was] a foster-child of literature.

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