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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• In the 19th century, European regimes resented London for hosting exiled radicals trying to foment revolution across the continent.
  19世纪，欧洲一些政权憎恨伦敦，就是因为它接纳了企图在整个欧洲大陆煽动革命的流亡激进分子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The still-simmering possibility of previously unthinkable defaults by west European states continues to foment uncertainty.
  西欧国家的违约在以前是不可想象的，现如今，这种随时可能爆发的可能性则持续滋生着不确定性。
• 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。