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hotbed

/hot-bed/US // ˈhɒtˌbɛd //UK // (ˈhɒtˌbɛd) //

温床,热床,热点,温室

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
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    hot·bed·ded, hot·bed·ding.

    • : Slang. to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incenter
as inmidpoint

Examples

  • 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.