hothouse

英 [ˈhɒthaʊs]

美 [ˈhɑːthaʊs]

n.  温室; 暖房; 有利于迅速发展的地方(或环境); (尤指有利于思想感情发展的)温床

复数：hothouses　

TEM8

BNC.21871 / COCA.23071

牛津词典

noun

• 温室；暖房
  a heated building, usually made of glass, used for growing delicate plants in
  1. hothouse flowers
     温室花卉
• 有利于迅速发展的地方（或环境）；（尤指有利于思想感情发展的）温床
  a place or situation that encourages the rapid development of sb/sth, especially ideas and emotions

柯林斯词典

• （栽培花草的）温室，暖房
  Ahothouseis a heated building, usually made of glass, in which plants and flowers can be grown.
• N-COUNT （尤指思想或感情活动的）爆发地，温床
  You can refer to a situation or place as ahothousewhen there is intense activity, especially intellectual or emotional activity.
  1. The vast crowds make Rome a frantic hothouse at times.
     熙攘的人群有时将罗马变成一个癫狂情绪的爆发地。
  2. ...the reputation of the College as a hothouse of novel ideas.
     该学院享有的新思想摇篮的美誉

英英释义

noun

• a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
  Synonym:conservatoryindoor garden

双语例句

• And should the world care who sits in the political hothouse?
  世界是否应该在意日本首相府到底住着谁？
• The utility model belongs to a cultivation hothouse in agriculture and a flower industry.
  本实用新型属农业、花卉业栽培温室大棚。
• Mixed with the ups and downs of life, to hold on Yo! Hothouse flowers, stood outside the environment?
  生活搀杂着酸甜苦辣，要坚持住呦！温室里的花，经得起外界的环境吗？
• The utility model relates to a hothouse greenhouse which is the improvement of a supporting framework of hothouse greenhouses.
  本实用新型涉及一种温室大棚，具体地说是温室大棚支撑骨架的改进。
• Largely shot in a studio, the film is a hothouse fantasy of 70-years-ago Hong Kong and Shanghai, as airless as Brokeback Mountain was open-range.
  本片主要是在摄影棚中拍摄的，是一个70年前香港和上海的温室幻想，令人窒息的程度如同《断臂山》的开阔草原。
• The result has been a hothouse culture where creativity is king, attention focuses inward, and marketability falls low down the list of corporate priorities.
  久而久之，本田养成了一种创意为王的温室文化，将注意力集中在公司内部，产品的适销性反而没有得到足够的关注。
• We're living in a hothouse of media-projected fear.
  我们就住在一个由媒体炮制出来的恐惧温室里。
• Under such policies, Latin America became a veritable hothouse of industrial diversification.
  在这样的政策下，拉丁美洲变成了一个真正的产业多元化的温室。
• This was the old system, before clubs opened academies to hothouse kids.
  过去的体制就是这样，后来各个俱乐部纷纷开校办学，招收那些温室里长大的孩子。
• That city seems to be the hothouse of decadence.
  该城市似乎是堕落的温床。