hot spot
热点,热点地区,热点区域
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- : a country or region where dangerous or difficult political situations exist or may erupt, especially where a war, revolution, or a belligerent attitude toward other countries exists or may develop: In the 1960s, Vietnam became a hot spot.
- : Informal. any area or place of known danger, intrigue, dissension, or instability.
- : Informal. a nightclub.
- : Photography. an area of a negative or print revealing excessive light on that part of the subject.
- : a section of forest or woods where fires frequently occur.
- : an area hotter than the surrounding surface, as on the shell of a furnace.
- : Digital Technology. a place where users of portable computers or mobile devices can get wireless broadband access to the internet or another network: how to find free Wi-Fi hot spots.
- : Physics. an area of abnormally high radioactivity.
- : Geology. a region of molten rock below and within the lithosphere that persists long enough to leave a record of uplift and volcanic activity at the earth's surface.Compare plume.
- : Genetics. a chromosome site or a section of DNA having a high frequency of mutation or recombination.
- : Veterinary Pathology. a moist, raw sore on the skin of a dog or cat caused by constant licking of an irritation from an allergic reaction, tangled coat, fleas, etc.
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Examples
Crowded apartments became hot spots as people came and left for work and those who fell sick struggled to find space to isolate.
Especially in Los Angeles, a hot spot for the coronavirus, any effort to throw up barriers to vaccination threatens to undermine the pandemic response, said Diana Shiba, president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
Physicians in Italy, another early hot spot, wondered whether diabetes diagnoses might follow, given the long-observed association between viral infections and the onset of diabetes.
Another idea, from Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht at Yale, is to focus on coronavirus hot spots.
Gloria said he also wants to expand web access at more city recreation centers and ramp up opportunities for residents to check out computers and wi-fi hot spots from city libraries.
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
There was a lathe near the spot where David Arden stood, and shavings and splinters under his feet.
Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.