英:[ˈhɒtbed]
美:[ˈhɑtbed]
英:[ˈhɒtbed]
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hot·bed
hat bed
复数:hotbeds
词根:hotbed
adj.hothouse 温室的;过分保护的;娇弱的
n.hothouse 温室;温床
noun
a bed of soil, usu. heated by fermenting manure and covered by glass, used to protect sensitive plants or to grow plants out of season.
any environment that encourages the rapid growth and development of something, esp. something undesirable.a hotbed of illegal drug activity
也称 hot-bed,指的是在1620年代,用发酵肥料加热的土壤上种植早熟植物的床位,源自 hot(形容词)和 bed(名词)。1768年开始,其泛指“促进快速生长的地方”。
The first known use of hotbed was in 1626
hotbednoun
a heated bed of soil enclosed in glass and used for growing seedlings
an environment that favors rapid growth or development
a hotbed of innovation
1 Unsurprising then, as Crane explains, that it became a hotbed of the Luddite uprising in 1812.
2 That his pet coinage spread no further is hardly a surprise, since the ad industry of the day understood itself as a rational, even scientific, enterprise rather than a hotbed of lunacy.
3 As you can see, Europe, especially Eastern Europe, has become a major hotbed for botnets.
正如你所见,欧洲尤其是东欧,已经逐步成为僵尸网络的聚合之地。
4 Now, coronavirus fears have further complicated this hotbed of flakiness.
5 You identified insomnia “hot spots” and “cold spots” across the country, and the Appalachian mountain region emerged as a hotbed for, well, hot spots.
6 The area has long been a hotbed of garage-based hobbyists, so it’s no surprise that the region also has a tradition of dedicated home brewing.
7 “Florida’s such a hotbed for diversity that you never know where someone’s coming from, culturally or morally,” he said.
8 During visits there, he says, he found a “hotbed of antebellum nostalgia ... and Confederate sympathies.”
9 The No. 23 chugs away, leaving me on Fleet Street in front of the Victorian crazy castle that houses the Royal Courts of Justice — this whole area is a hotbed of lawyers.
10 It would be easy for the major institutions to look at the hotbed of activity in the smaller halls and alternative spaces and conclude that contemporary music is being attended to quite well.
11 In homage to the Five Points neighbourhood it calls home – once a hotbed of the American jazz scene – Spangalang takes its name from a jazz term referring to a cymbal pattern.
12 The school was, he later said, “a hotbed of abstract painting radicalism,” with an emphasis on discovering new pictorial ideas, drawn from unlikely sources, that would generate fresh work.
13 For the last seven years, Drake has recentered hip-hop around melody and feeling; turned his hometown Toronto into an aesthetic hotbed; and become one of pop music’s most transformational, and doubted, figures.
14 Learn next progress, is bigger and their effective rules. So do not let yourself sleep on their own success hotbed.
学会下一次进步,是做大自己的有效法则。因此千万不要让自己睡在自己成功的温床上。
15 a hotbed of political unrest
16 Coumet is a passionate proponent of street art, and the district has emerged as a hotbed for international talent.
17 She compared Google Podcasts’ positioning to that of Parler, the largely unregulated social network that was a hotbed for disinformation and extremist groups before the largest tech companies turned away from it.
18 “This is a hotbed of activity, and the responses have been slow.”
19 The conventional wisdom surrounding American college life these days views campuses as hotbeds of intolerance for free speech, with students themselves leading the charge.
20 Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can’t get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.
管理松懈的团队是滋生混乱的温床——员工常常抱怨开会占用了太多时间,或者办公室环境嘈杂,使得他们没法完成工作。