今天我们要学的词是 foster. Foster是指培育、培养、促进。North and South Korea opened a joint liaison office aimed at fostering cross-border communications and relations，朝鲜和韩国开放了一个联合联络处，目的是促进跨境通讯和朝韩关系。Convinced that smaller schools with specific interests could foster better, more motivated learning, the Gates Foundation spent millions of dollars testing how to break up the large comprehensive high school model. 盖茨基金会深信，具有专项教育的较小型学校可以促进更好、更能激励学生的教学，因此花费数百万美元尝试如何打破大型高中的综合教学模式。