foment

英 [fəʊˈment]

美 [foʊˈment]

v.  挑起，激起，煽动(事端或暴力)

现在分词：fomenting　过去分词：fomented　过去式：fomented　复数：foments　第三人称单数：foments　

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BNC.24306 / COCA.22862

牛津词典

verb

• 挑起，激起，煽动（事端或暴力）
  to create trouble or violence or make it worse
  1. They accused him of fomenting political unrest.
     他们指控他煽动政治动乱。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 煽动，助长(事端或暴力)
  If someone or somethingfomentstrouble or violent opposition, they cause it to develop.
  1. They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
     他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。

英英释义

verb

• bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
  1. His legs should be fomented
• try to stir up public opinion
  Synonym:agitatestir up

双语例句

• They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
  他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。
• Foment discord, ill feeling, civil disorder, etc.
  引起不和、恶感、内乱等。
• S.and Kazakhstan, which have worried that his presence could foment a civil war in the Central Asian republic.
  他的离去受到了俄罗斯、美国和哈萨克斯坦的催促，这些国家担心他留在国内会引发一场内战。
• In the developing world, faster-than-expected recoveries and rising interest rates could foment a vicious carry trade.
  在发展中国家，复苏速度快于预期以及利率日益攀升，可能引发恶意套利交易。
• According to the Putin world-view, the Americans and the Europeans deliberately took advantage of a period of Russian weakness in the 1990s, to betray promises and to enlarge Nato up to the borders of Russia, and then to foment anti-Russian colour revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
  按照普京的世界观，美国和欧洲蓄意利用上世纪90年代俄罗斯国力疲弱的那段时期，背弃承诺、将北约东扩到俄罗斯边境，随后又在乌克兰和格鲁吉亚煽起反俄的颜色革命。
• The brief People's Daily article, which carried the byline Wang Xiaoyang, charged that the U.S.developed the concept of cyber warfare and that it had used the Internet to foment unrest in Iran.
  《人民日报》这篇署名“汪小阳”的短文称美国引入了网络战概念，并利用网络煽动伊朗内乱。
• I have written the book to try and help foment the various national conversations that must be had around the world about getting our fiscal houses ( and sanity) in order.
  我写的书，试图帮助挑起的，必须围绕关于恢复国内秩序的（和理智）财政房子世界有各种国家的对话。
• A deadly mix of falling prices and high leverage could foment a "debt-deflation" of the type first described by Irving Fisher, an American economist, in1933.
  1933年美国经济学家艾文费希尔首先提出债务通缩的概念，它是由价格下跌和高杠杆相互作用所产生的致命结果。
• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
  如果我们这方面不特别小心注意，一定就会酿出一场灾难，也没办法让自己立于任何法律的保障之下，因为在那里面可没有我们说话的份儿、有代表我们的人。
• That formative reason otherwise than immediate natural factor, people activity of production& livelihood foment and aggravate development of urban geological question.
  其成因除最直接的自然因素所致外，还有人为不合理的生产和生活活动诱发而加剧城市地质问题的发生发展。