heartland

noun

1. （国家或地区的）腹地，中心区域
   the central part of a country or an area
   1. the great Russian heartlands
      广袤的俄罗斯中心地带
2. （活动或政党的）重要场所，核心区域
   an area that is important for a particular activity or political party
   1. the industrial heartland of Germany
      德国的中心工业区
   2. the traditional Tory heartland of Britain's boardrooms
      保守党的传统领地：英国的各董事会

1. N-COUNT （某活动或信仰占优势的）中心区域，核心地区
   Journalists use heartland or heartlands to refer to the area or region where a particular set of activities or beliefs is most significant.
   1. ...his six-day bus tour around the industrial heartland of America...
      他在美国工业中心区域的大巴6日游
   2. Worst-hit areas were Tory heartlands in London and the South-East.
      受影响最严重的是伦敦及英国东南部的保守党核心势力地区。
   3. ...the heartlands of the service industries.
      服务业的中心地区
2. N-COUNT （国家或大陆的）心脏地带，腹地
   The most central area of a country or continent can be referred to as its heartland or heartlands.
   1. We then headed west towards the heartland of Poland...
      我们随后朝西前往波兰中部。
   2. For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.
      对很多人来说，深入乡村腹地才能体验到真正的法国生活。

1. Worst-hit areas were Tory heartlands in London and the South-East.
   受影响最严重的是伦敦及英国东南部的保守党核心势力地区。
2. We then headed west towards the heartland of Poland
   我们随后朝西前往波兰中部。
3. For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.
   对很多人来说，深入乡村腹地才能体验到真正的法国生活。
4. This densely populated plain, which is devoted to wet rice cultivation, is the heartland of Cambodia.
   有利于水稻种植、人口稠密的平原是柬埔寨的中心地带。
5. The coal-mining heartland of Shanxi province had the biggest problem.
   煤炭开采腹地陕西省是问题最严重的地区。
6. We lived, as you can tell, the classic All-American, Korean family grows up in a small town in Iowa story. We fully embraced our lives in the heartland of this great country.
   你们可以想象，我们有着在爱荷华州一个小镇的经典的美籍韩国家庭中成长的经历，我们完全拥抱了在这个伟大国家中心地带的生活。
7. Historically, Russia has pushed its borders outward, as far away as possible from its heartland.
   历史上，俄罗斯一直努力将边境线向外推进，尽可能地远离腹地。
8. The Chinese will doubtless enjoy the symbolism of floating their boats in the traditional heartland of European civilisation.
   中国人无疑会享受他们的船舰航行在欧洲文明传统中心地带的象征意义。
9. Here's the American heartland as it's seldom portrayed on screen, with humor and almost palpable fondness.
   这里是很少在银幕上得到刻画的美国心脏地带，带着幽默和几乎可以感知的深情。
10. In the heartland of Pakistan, they fought to save their livelihood.
    在巴基斯坦的中心地带，他们努力挽救自己的生计。
11. Even in northern Xinjiang, far from the Uighur heartland, tourism workers say business is suffering.
    即便在远离维吾尔族中心地带的新疆北部，旅游工作者都表示他们的业务比较惨淡。
12. Karbala, south of Baghdad in Iraq's Shiite heartland, is one of the world's holiest Shiite cities.
    卡尔巴拉，伊拉克巴格达南部的什叶派圣地，是世界上什叶派最神圣的城市之一。
13. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.
    我的母亲出生在美国的中部地区，而我父亲是一个在肯尼亚长大的放羊娃。
14. I was raised in the heartland of my own country.
    我是在祖国得和新城是成长的。
15. Iraqi security forces are on high alert around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital.
    伊拉克安全部队对首都巴格达周边及巴格达北部逊尼派聚集地区高度戒备。
16. And yet the town, and its province of Limburg, are Mr Wilders's heartland.
    然而这座城市，乃至它所在的省林堡，是威尔德斯先生的腹心地带。
17. This imbalance, which is common in towns across Guangdong's manufacturing heartland, has raised the spectre of mass unemployment and social unrest as the global financial crisis damps consumer demand in China's key export markets.
    这种失衡局面在整个广东省制造业中心地带的城镇都十分普遍。随着全球金融危机遏制了中国关键出口市场的消费者需求，这种失衡加剧了人们对于大规模失业和社会动荡的忧虑。
18. The rebels claim they could be in Sirte tomorrow, Colonel Gaddafi's birthplace and his heartland.
    叛军宣称他们明天将打入卡扎菲上校的出生地和腹地苏尔特。
19. Wuhan wants to become a manufacturing and transportation hub for the heartland& China's version of Chicago.
    武汉想成为中国腹地的制造和运输中心，成为中国的芝加哥。
20. The USA's Middle West is the heartland of the country.
    中西部是美国的中心区域。
21. Which region is known as the industrial and manufacturing heartland of Canada?
    哪个地区享有加拿大工业与制造业的心脏地带的美誉？
22. It's certainly a concern here in Guangdong Province, China's factory heartland.
    在中国的工业中心广东省，这当然是个令人担忧的问题。
23. Much of the growth is happening not in green-dominated California but in America's thrifty heartland.
    这种增长的很大部分不是在绿色环保势力占主导地位的加州，而是发生在美国富足的腹地。
24. Following the revolution, the peach was utilized by settlers of the heartland of the North American continent.
    革命以后，桃为北美大陆中心地带的移民所利用。
25. But we also know that these tools are insufficient to defeat malaria in its heartland and eventually interrupt transmission.
    但我们也懂得，要在疟疾的中心地带战胜它并最终阻断传播，这些工具还不够。
26. The environment of civilization origins can be distinguished into two different kinds: macrocosmic environment and heartland environment.
    文明起源的地理环境可以分为整体地理环境和中心地理环境。
27. Mountains to the north, northwest and west shield the city and northern China's agricultural heartland from the encroaching desert steppes.
    北面、西北面和西面的群山将城市和华北农业中心地带环绕，阻止了沙漠草原对这些地方的侵蚀。
28. The food we eat no longer comes from america's heartland.
    我们吃的食物不是来自美国本土。
29. In the rugby heartland of southwest France, the terrain is rugged and the weather fickle.
    这个位于法国西南部的橄榄球运动的心脏地区，地势崎岖，天气变化无常。
30. Simao ( Pu'er Prefecture) is the original tea heartland of the world.
    思茅（普洱府）是世界茶树原产地的中心地带。

noun

1. the central region of a country or continent