foment

verb

1. 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。

1. VERB 煽动，助长(事端或暴力)
   If someone or something foments trouble 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。

1. They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence.
   他们指责罢工领导人煽动暴力。
2. Theres no reason why we cant continue to foment high-level development.
   我们没有理由不继续促进高水平的发展。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. Foment discord, ill feeling, civil disorder, etc.
   引起不和、恶感、内乱等。
6. 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。
7. 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！
8. 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。
9. That formative reason otherwise than immediate natural factor, people activity of production& livelihood foment and aggravate development of urban geological question.
   其成因除最直接的自然因素所致外，还有人为不合理的生产和生活活动诱发而加剧城市地质问题的发生发展。
10. It was a case of the reactionaries inside a socialist country, in league with the imperialists, attempting to achieve their conspiratorial aims by taking advantage of contradictions among the people to foment dissension and stir up disorder.
    社会主义国家内部的反动派同帝国主义者互相勾结，利用人民内部的矛盾，挑拨离间，兴风作浪，企图实现他们的阴谋。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. But does it contribute to robust public discussion or, instead, foment hatred and promote conflict?
    但是，这样做是有助于推动活跃的公共讨论，还是会煽动仇恨和助长冲突？
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. Many years 'development experiences on information systems in materials dispatching domain and continuous considerations in complexity foment us thinking about the more general logistic systems. As a result, the concept of Complex Logistics ( CL) is proposed.
    在物资调运领域多年的信息系统开发经历，以及对系统复杂性的关注，引发了我们对更为一般的物流系统的思考，并最终提出了复杂物流系统的概念。
21. 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

verb

1. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
   1. His legs should be fomented

2. try to stir up public opinion

   Synonym:    agitatestir up