| 单词 | a hotbed of something |
| 释义 | a hotbed of somethinga hotbed of something LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTa place where a lot of a particular type of activity, especially bad or violent activity, happens 某事物的温床〔尤指坏事或暴力活动〕 the university was a hotbed of radical protest 那所大学是激进抗议活动的温床。 Examples from the Corpus a hotbed of something• The troubled province is a hotbed of ethnic violence.• The Ariadne, if I may put it that way, is a hotbed of super-sensitivity.• Vasey's, like any other establishment, was a hotbed of gossip.• Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility. → a hotbed of something at hotbed(1) |
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