hotbed

英 ['hɒtbed] 美 ['hɑːtbed]

• n. 温床

英英释义

Noun:

1. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad);

   "it was a hotbed of vice"
   

2. a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Bureaucracy is a hotbed of bribery and corruption.
   官僚主义是贿赂和腐败的温床。
2. Which led anti-Nazis to paint the National Socialist Party as a homosexual hotbed.
   这使得反纳粹者把国家社会党指斥为同性恋的温床。

经典引文

• The monasteries were not hotbeds of crime and luxury.

  出自： M. Cox

词汇搭配

• transferable hotbed 活动温床
• permanent hotbed 固定温床
• synthetic manure hotbed 人造厩肥温床...
• mechanized hotbed 机械化温床
• underground hotbed 地下温室
• raised hotbed 高设温床
• temporary hotbed 临时温床

近反义词

【近义词】

• nest 巢
• breeding ground 滋生地
• source 来源
• focus 焦点
• hothouse 温室
• centre 中心
• center 中心