nurture过去式

1. 培育，培养
2. 养育，教养，教育
3. 营养物，营养品
4. 食物
5. 环境因素
6. 训练
7. 照顾
8. 滋养

1. 养育，教养，养护
2. 培育，培植，培养
3. 抱有
4. 扶植，扶持
5. 积聚
6. 给…营养，给…营养物，滋养
7. 帮助，支持
8. 给与营养物
9. 滋长，助长

1. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community;

   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
   

1. help develop, help grow;

   "nurture his talents"
   

2. bring up;

   "raise a family"
   "bring up children"
   

3. provide with nourishment;

   "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"
   "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
   

1.养育;培育
If younurture something such as a young child or a young plant, you care for it while it is growing and developing.

e.g. Parents want to know the best way tonurture and raise their child to adulthood...
父母希望知道养育孩子长大成人的最佳方法。
e.g. The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants.
这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。

2.发展，孕育(计划、想法等);培养(人等)
If younurture plans, ideas, or people, you encourage them or help them to develop.

e.g. She had always nurtured great ambitions for her son.
她总是鼓励儿子要树立远大抱负。
e.g. ...parents whose political views were nurtured in the sixties...
政治观点形成于60年代的父母一辈

3.教育;教养;培养
Nurture is care that is given to someone while they are growing and developing.

e.g. The human organism learns partly by nature, partly bynurture.
人的学习能力部分是天生的，部分是后天培养的。

• nurture personnel培养员工

• delicately nurture娇生惯养

• nurture in在…培养

• good nurture好的教养

• This crime..done by one of her years and nurture..was unspeakable.

  出自：R. Hughes

• By solemn vision, and bright silver dream, His infancy was nurtured.

  出自：Shelley

• Most of our trees were planted and carefully nurtured.

  出自：H. Belloc

• Bred of the..country itself, nurtured from its plains and streams.

  出自：W. C. Williams

nurture, cherish, cultivate, foster, nurse

这组词都可表示“照料或培育某人或某事”。其区别在于:nurse通常指养育婴儿或幼兽或照料无力自顾的病人; cherish着重指抚育或爱护; cultivate则指培养某种理想中的事物或感情; foster指鼓励、扶植或促进某事物的增长和发展; nurture则强调对后来发展起决定作用的教养或训练。例如:

All her time goes into nursing her old father.她的全部时间都用来看护她的老父亲。

They have cherished the child as one of their own.他们把这个小孩当作自己的亲生子女来抚养。

He cultivates an appreciation of abstract art.他培养对抽象艺术的鉴赏力。

The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was young.母亲设法培养儿子对音乐的兴趣,在他很小的时候就带他去参加音乐会。

Nurture your mind with good reading.以优秀的读物来发展你的心智。