hotbed 的 2 个定义
- a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
- a place or environment favoring rapid growth or spread, especially of something disliked or unwanted: a hotbed of disease.
- Slang. a bed shared by two or more persons in shifts, each sleeping in it for or at a designated time and then vacating it for the next occupant.
hot·bed·ded, hot·bed·ding.
- Slang. to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied.
hotbed 近义词
等同于 nerve center
等同于 trouble spot
等同于 center
等同于 midpoint
等同于 den
更多hotbed例句
- Large gatherings can be a hotbed of germs, can pose dangers such as stampedes and heat stroke, and can encourage risky behaviors such as excessive alcohol consumption and unprotected sex.
- The Atlantic League, a hotbed for innovation in baseball, announced plans Wednesday to move the pitcher’s mound back 12 inches from home plate this season.
- It has become such a hotbed for political news that Twitter has instituted fact checking on the site.
- Africa’s southern Kalahari Desert is not typically regarded as a hotbed of Stone Age innovations.
- Groups have been a hotbed for many of Facebook’s biggest problems, including misinformation and hate speech.
- Baseball has long been the most popular sport in Cuba and the island has long been a hotbed of baseball talent.
- In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.
- It is also overwhelmingly pro-regime, and since the start of Syrian unrest the region has become a hotbed of pro-Assad activity.
- The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.
- As their grip loosens, the island, and particularly its capital city, is morphing into a fashionable, gorgeous hotbed of tourism.
- The hotbed frames and sashes were put away for future use, as it was too late to need them now.
- When he saw early spring vegetables growing in a hotbed, he said: How does that loose covering keep them warm?
- In Corsica they do nothing, restlessly; while Sardinia, as all the world knows, is a hotbed of active discontent.
- Zurich, as you know, is a hotbed of radicalism, and those young women who went to learn soon imbibed the wildest ideas.
- If the loam is a heavy one, place the pot in a warm situation; a spent hotbed is a good place.