foment

单词foment

基本解释

v.: 激起
网络: 煽动；助长；热敷

权威解释

• 挑起，激起，煽动（事端或暴力）:

  to create trouble or violence or make it worse

英汉解释

• 【医学】热敷,热罨

• 酝酿,煽动,挑起

• 煽动;热敷;激起

• 策划;煽动,拨弄,引发

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：foments

• 现在分词：fomenting

• 过去式：fomented

同义词

v.fosterstir upstimulateincitegenerate

反义词

v.dampen

例句

• An Arab uprising against us, which the Germans were definitely trying to foment, would have been disastrous.

  德国显然试行策划阿拉伯对我之暴动，以造成极大的危机。

• Now, from his cell, he is trying to foment an uprising with a post to employees on China"s largest web portal.

  如今，身陷囹圄的他在中国最大的门户网站上发表致国美员工的公开信，设法挑动他们反对国美现任管理层。

• The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

  横征暴敛之举会使正当的征税变得困难，并容易导致一揆的发生。

• All monks and nuns had to sign a loyalty pledge that they would not use their religious position to foment secession or dissent.

  所有的僧侣们都被要求签订保证书，称自己不会利用宗教手段来散布分裂主张和不同政见。

• Thus unilateral moves by the U. S. to contract consumption, unless done very gradually, could foment a world-wide slump.

  因此，除非是以非常渐进的方式，否则美国单方面缩减消费有可能导致全球性的经济萧条。

• Moreover, critics say that the army has historically done little but brutalise its own citizenry and foment instability.

  此外，批评者说，军队历来不起作用，反而凌虐自己的公民和造成不稳定。

• His exposure of the Pentagon"s fabrications did much to foment opposition to the Vietnam war.

  他曝光五角大楼的谎言对激起反越战发挥了很大作用。

• This is the kind of revolutionary fervor that PayPal was always intended to foment.

  贝宝一直想激发这样的革命激情。

• Many Muslim conservatives remain convinced that the Copts are cats" paws for malingering foreign powers who seek to foment chaos.

  而大多数穆斯林保守派仍然深信科普特教会就是谋求制造混乱却假装无辜的外国势力的狗腿子。

• Welfare was a secret plot to attract rural blacks to cities, where they would foment "a vicious race war. "

  福利不过是吸引乡下黑鬼进入城市，进而煽动他们进行“刻毒的民族战争”的手段而已。