foment
英 [f?(?)'ment]
- vt. 煽動；挑起；熱敷
GRETOEFL暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?foments;過去式:?fomented;過去分詞:?fomented;現(xiàn)在分詞:?fomenting;
中文詞源
foment 煽動
來自拉丁語fovere, 熱，詞源同fever. -ment,名詞后綴。引申詞義煽動。
英文詞源
- foment
- foment: see favour
- foment (v.)
- early 15c., "apply hot liquids," from Old French fomenter "apply hot compress (to a wound)" (13c.), from Late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum "warm application, poultice," contraction of *fovimentum, from fovere "to warm; cherish, encourage" (see fever). Extended sense of "stimulate, instigate" (1620s), on the notion of "encourage the growth of," as if by heat, probably was taken from French. Related: Fomented; fomenting.
雙語例句
- 1. The rebels know the truth and seek to foment revolution.
- 那些叛亂者知道真相,并且想辦法來挑起革命.
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- 2. That's an attempt to foment discord.
- 這是挑撥.
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- 3. The still - simmering possibility of previously unthinkable defaults by west European states continues to foment uncertainty.
- 西歐國家的違約在以前是不可想象的,現(xiàn)如今,這種隨時可能爆發(fā)的可能性則持續(xù)滋生著不確定性.
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- 4. An Arab uprising against us, which the Germans were definitely trying foment, would have been disastrous.
- 德國顯然試行策劃阿拉伯對我之暴動, 以造成極大的危機.
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- 5. They will foment trouble in all three Baltic republics, where there are large Russian - speaking minorities.
- 他們將在所有三個波羅的海共和國挑起爭端, 那里有大批講俄語的少數(shù)民族.
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