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hotbed

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英 ['hɒtbed] 美['hɑtbɛd]
英语单词hotbed
  • n. 滋长地,温床

英英释意


1. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad);
"it was a hotbed of vice"
2. a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants