hothouse 的 2 个定义
plural hot·hous·es [hot-hou-ziz]. /ˈhɒtˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
- of, relating to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse.
- overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate.
hothouse 近义词
等同于 garden
更多hothouse例句
- I was thrust into an intellectual hothouse of blackboard discussions, and seminars that would always go way over the allotted time that helped me momentarily forget why I was there.
- He added that those stars from Hollywood's Golden Age would not have "survived" in the hothouse-fame environment of today.
- If Saudi Arabia is a hothouse flower, then Americans have helped build the greenhouse.
- Hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
- Outside the hothouse of that environment, he is making sense—though his is a message that many conservatives may not want to hear.
- And Mitt, obviously rattled by the Gingrich “surge,” seemed like a delicate hothouse flower.
- Honorine has her little house, a garden, and a splendid hothouse, for a rent of five hundred francs a year.
- "He is a very precious hothouse flower," said Dennis sarcastically.
- He is engaged in growing and wholesale shipping of hothouse and garden vegetables.
- Of course these were not fragrant like hothouse violets, but they had quite as beautiful a color.
- She slept a great deal, and was fed constantly and her crystal palace was like a little hothouse.