hotbed
美['hɑːtbed] 英['hɒtbed]
n. 温床
英英释义
Noun- a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad);
"it was a hotbed of vice"
- a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
例句
用作名词(n.)- Bureaucracy is a hotbed of bribery and corruption.官僚主义是贿赂和腐败的温床。
- Which led anti-Nazis to paint the National Socialist Party as a homosexual hotbed.这使得反纳粹者把国家社会党指斥为同性恋的温床。