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

• There is one, that's for sure! The devil alone can foment murders! Don't forget that, and be careful!
  可以肯定，有一个魔鬼！这个魔鬼可以制造凶案。别忘了这个，小心一些！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Foment discord, ill feeling, civil disorder, etc.
  引起不和、恶感、内乱等。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。