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hot-button

/hot-buht-n/US // ˈhɒtˈbʌt n //

热点问题,热点,热点话题,热点议题

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.

Examples

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "I verily believe they're gone to look at my button," cried Davy, beginning to laugh, in spite of his fears.

  • Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.

  • News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.