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词语辨析
nurture，cherish，cultivate，foster，nurse。 这组词都可以表示“照料或培育某人或某事”。它们的区别在于：nurse通常指养育婴儿或幼兽或照料无力自顾的病人；cherish着重指抚育或爱护；cultivate则指培养某种理想中的事物或感情；foster指鼓励、扶植或促进某事物的增长和发展；nurture则强调对后来发展起决定作用的教养或训练。例如：All her time goes into nursing her old father.她的全部时间都用来看护她的老父亲。They have cherished the child as one of their own.他们把这个小孩当作自己的亲生子女来抚养。He cultivates an appreciation of abstract art.他培养对抽象艺术的鉴赏力。The mother tried to foster her son's interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was young.母亲设法培养儿子对音乐的兴趣，在他很小的时候就带他去参加音乐会。Nurture your mind with good reading.以优秀的读物来发展你的心智。 词源词缀 来自nurse，护理，养育。nurt(=-nutr-）营养+-ure名词词尾

中文词源： nurture 养育，培育 来自nurse,护理，养育。 nurture
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常见考点例句：

Government tries to nurture settings where brilliance can happen .

政府设法培育一种可以成就辉煌的氛围。

Tip forgive rather than nurture injured feelings .

小贴士：原谅而不是滋养受伤害的感觉。

Male rats sometimes eat their young rather than nurture them , which makes them a poor model for studying how fatherhood affects the brains of species that frown on infanticide .

雄鼠有时候会吃掉他的幼崽而不是养育它们，因此对于研究那些不存在杀婴行为的物种来说是，老鼠不是一个好的模型。

At the same time , midlife is a time to nurture and give back , whether by having children or engaging in mentoring or social activism .

同时，中年还是抚育和给予的时期，要么生养孩子，或者是忙于指导或社会行动。

We heartily recommend that junior schol-ars participate and engage , but we also are cognizant of the fact that they may also need to nurture parallel conventional studies that have shorter time frames to completion .

我们由衷地建议中级学者参加和投入，但我们也认识到有这样的事实：这些中级学者同时需要受到常规研究的熏陶，减少研究任务完成的时间要求。