foment

• 煽る；かき立てる；熱する

ラテン語のfovere「熱する」が語源で、語源的には発熱と同じ。fomentから派生。

foment

foment: see favour

foment (v.)

early 15c., "apply hot liquids," from Old French fomenter "apply hot compress (to a wound)" (13c.), from Late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum "warm application, poultice," contraction of *fovimentum, from fovere "to warm; cherish, encourage" (see fever). Extended sense of "stimulate, instigate" (1620s), on the notion of "encourage the growth of," as if by heat, probably was taken from French. Related: Fomented; fomenting.

1. The rebels know the truth and seek to foment revolution.

反乱者たちは真実を知り、革命を起こす方法を考えている。

2.That 's an attempt to foment discord.

これは挑発です。

3.The still-simmering possibility of previously unthinkable defaults by west European states continues to foment uncertainty.

西欧諸国のデフォルトは以前は考えられなかったが、今ではこのようないつ爆発するかもしれない可能性が不確実性を生み続けている。

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

ドイツは明らかにアラブによる私への暴動を試行的に企画し、大きな危機をもたらした。

5.They will foment trouble in all three Baltic republics,where there are large Russian-speaking minorities.

彼らはすべての3つのバルト共和国で紛争を引き起こす。そこにはロシア語を話す少数民族が大勢いる。