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hotbed

英 [ˈhɒtbed]

美 [ˈhɑːtbed]

n.  (坏事、暴力等的)温床

复数:hotbeds 

TEM8

BNC.32677 / COCA.17295

牛津词典

    noun

    • (坏事、暴力等的)温床
      a place where a lot of a particular activity, especially sth bad or violent, is happening
      1. The area was a hotbed of crime.
        这个地区是犯罪活动的温床。

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT (不良活动的)滋长地,温床
      If you say that somewhere is ahotbed ofan undesirable activity, you are emphasizing that a lot of the activity is going on there or being started there.
      1. ...a state now known worldwide as a hotbed of racial intolerance.
        举世皆知现在是滋生种族褊狭的温床的国家

    英英释义

    noun

    • a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
      1. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)
        1. it was a hotbed of vice

      双语例句

      • The Pacific Northwest has long been a hotbed of both Green politics and cutting-edge technology.
        美国太平洋西北部长期以来一直是绿色政治和尖端科技产生的摇篮。
      • Iraq, number five, is a hotbed for terrorist training.
        排名第五的伊拉克是孕育恐怖份子的温床;
      • The doughty Government Investment Corporation of Singapore is not often a hotbed of heretical thought.
        强悍的新加坡政府投资公司(GovernmentInvestmentCorporationofSingapore,简称GIC)并不常成为异端思想的滋生地。
      • Party culture is the hotbed which nourishes ambiguous desire and enlightens seductive sparkles between social individuals.
        派对文化渴望暧昧温床的滋养,以令社交因子碰撞出诱人火花。
      • Bribery bribes directly induced, is a hotbed of Corruption, bribery is a thorough investigation of corruption in our country to contain the necessary requirements.
        行贿直接诱发受贿.是腐败产生的温床,严查行贿犯罪是当前我国遏制腐败的必然要求。
      • It is a hotbed of research.
        它是一个研究的热门。
      • The city is a hotbed of crime.
        这个城市是犯罪的温床。
      • Network life is becoming the hotbed and soil of juvenile delinquency.
        网络生活正成为青少年犯罪的温床与土壤。
      • All this has given corruption a hotbed to breed and spread and has added to the difficulty of our campaign against corruption.
        这就使腐败现象仍有滋生蔓延的条件,也加大了反腐败的难度。
      • A hotbed of activity has emerged around how XML content formats and XML-based metadata systems can support learning and instructional technology.
        围绕着如何将XML内容格式和基于XML的元数据系统用于支持学习和教育技术,已经出现了一个实践的温床。