| 单词 | nurture |
| 释义 | nurture (once / 1496 pages) vn If you plant a seed, water it daily and give it lots of light, you nurture it until it is ready to be transplanted outside. When you nurture a person or thing, you care for it and help it to grow. After a fight with your friend, you may have to nurture the relationship a little until you're close again. Use the phrase "nature versus nurture" to help you remember the word. Nature is a baby just out of the womb. Nurture is how that baby is raised or taken care of. Once the child is older, you may wonder if its love of reading is nature or nurture — is it natural born or is it because you read to the baby every night. WORD FAMILYnurture: nurtural, nurturance, nurtured, nurtures, nurturing USAGE EXAMPLESIt is about nurturing, comfort and spending time with people who are important to us. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Physical health is foundational to be sure, but its our more humanitarian capacities that need nurturing. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) “Ergo,” Mr. Heller wrote, “the lid is a nurturing apparatus.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v provide with nourishment Syn|Hypo|Hyper nourish, sustain carry be able to feed cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 2v bring up Syn|Hypo bring up, parent, raise, rear fledge feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight cradlebring up from infancy fosterbring up under fosterage; of children 3v help develop; help grow nurture his talents Syn|Hypo|Hyper foster keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize, support be a regular customer or client of serve, serve wellpromote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to encourage inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to 4n helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community they debated whether nature or nurture was more important Syn|Hyper breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture 5n the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child Syn|Hyper raising, rearing upbringing properties acquired during a person's formative years |
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