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

• 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。
• 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。
• They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
  他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。
• For one thing, high fuel prices can foment unrest, Burma being the latest case.
  首先，燃油价格高企可能会引发动荡，缅甸就是最新的例证。
• The song was banned on the grounds that it might foment racial tension.
  那首歌因为可能激化种族间的紧张关系被禁止了。
• Many years 'development experiences on information systems in materials dispatching domain and continuous considerations in complexity foment us thinking about the more general logistic systems. As a result, the concept of Complex Logistics ( CL) is proposed.
  在物资调运领域多年的信息系统开发经历，以及对系统复杂性的关注，引发了我们对更为一般的物流系统的思考，并最终提出了复杂物流系统的概念。
• 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。
• Treatment of cervix vertebra disease with extradural block complicated with massage and foment and traction Supplemental drugs used in epidural block
  颈部硬膜外麻醉的应用颈部硬膜外阻滞加按摩、热敷牵引治疗颈椎病
• In the past, while we were fighting strenuously for peace and unity, they were doing all they could to foment civil war and splits.
  当我们过去力争和平统一的时候，他们就竭力挑拨内战和分裂。
• Theres no reason why we cant continue to foment high-level development.
  我们没有理由不继续促进高水平的发展。