hotbed

noun

1. （坏事、暴力等的）温床
   a place where a lot of a particular activity, especially sth bad or violent, is happening
   1. The area was a hotbed of crime.
      这个地区是犯罪活动的温床。

1. N-COUNT （不良活动的）滋长地，温床
   If you say that somewhere is a hotbed of an undesirable activity, you are emphasizing that a lot of the activity is going on there or being started there.
   1. ...a state now known worldwide as a hotbed of racial intolerance.
      举世皆知现在是滋生种族褊狭的温床的国家

1. Bureaucracy is a hotbed for bribery and corruption.
   官僚主义是贿赂和腐败的温床。
2. Yet with surging labor and energy costs, China is no longer seen as a low-cost market, especially when compared with developing nations in Southeast Asia, which remains the main hotbed of budget airline activity in the region.
   然而随着劳动力和能源成本飙升，中国已经不再被视为一个低成本市场，尤其是与东南亚发展中国家相比，那些国家仍然是该地区廉价航空公司活动的主要温床。
3. Northern Australia is a hotbed of exotic animals, including the frilled lizard.
   北澳大利亚是奇异动物的温床，包括皱褶蜥蜴。
4. A hotbed of activity has emerged around how XML content formats and XML-based metadata systems can support learning and instructional technology.
   围绕着如何将XML内容格式和基于XML的元数据系统用于支持学习和教育技术，已经出现了一个实践的温床。
5. The Pacific Northwest has long been a hotbed of both Green politics and cutting-edge technology.
   美国太平洋西北部长期以来一直是绿色政治和尖端科技产生的摇篮。
6. New York and Seattle are already sparring over which will be the next hotbed, beyond Silicon Valley, for educating these analysts of the future.
   纽约和西雅图已经展开了培养这些未来分析师的争夺战，它们都希望自己能够成为继硅谷之后的第二个孵化地。
7. It is no longer in use, as Earth has since become a hotbed of alien visitation.
   由于地球已经变成外星访客的温床，那个卫星已经没在使用了。
8. This area was a hotbed of crime.
   这个地区是犯罪活动的温床。
9. The doughty Government Investment Corporation of Singapore is not often a hotbed of heretical thought.
   强悍的新加坡政府投资公司（GovernmentInvestmentCorporationofSingapore，简称GIC）并不常成为异端思想的滋生地。
10. The illegal immigrants lived in a hotbed.
    那些非法移民住在设热铺的廉价旅馆里。
11. Utah has become a hotbed of economic growth fueled by all the people coming here from California.
    犹他州被从加州来的人注入了活力，成了经济增长的温床。
12. Iraq, number five, is a hotbed for terrorist training.
    排名第五的伊拉克是孕育恐怖份子的温床；
13. All this has given corruption a hotbed to breed and spread and has added to the difficulty of our campaign against corruption.
    这就使腐败现象仍有滋生蔓延的条件，也加大了反腐败的难度。
14. The commercial bribe behavior already became breeds economic crimes the and so on the embezzlement, bribe hotbed.
    商业贿赂行为已经成为孳生贪污、受贿等经济犯罪的温床。
15. As you can see, Europe, especially Eastern Europe, has become a major hotbed for botnets.
    正如你所见，欧洲尤其是东欧，已经逐步成为僵尸网络的聚合之地。
16. Step in her soft soil, the only know life can be such a hotbed of real horizon.
    踩在她松软的泥土上，才知道生命的温床可以如此地平实。
17. It is a hotbed of research.
    它是一个研究的热门。
18. China seems to have been a hotbed of innovation in the ancient world, and this particularly impressed Joseph Needham, a biochemist at Cambridge University.
    在古代世界，中国似乎一直是发明创造的温床，这给剑桥大学的生物化学家李约瑟留下了特别的印象。
19. Network life is becoming the hotbed and soil of juvenile delinquency.
    网络生活正成为青少年犯罪的温床与土壤。
20. Party culture is the hotbed which nourishes ambiguous desire and enlightens seductive sparkles between social individuals.
    派对文化渴望暧昧温床的滋养，以令社交因子碰撞出诱人火花。
21. A taxi driver from the area said Souq al-Juma has long been a hotbed of anger toward Gaddafi's government.
    一个来自该地区的出租车司机说Souqal-Juma已成为对卡扎菲政府愤怒的滋生地很长时间了。
22. Bribery bribes directly induced, is a hotbed of Corruption, bribery is a thorough investigation of corruption in our country to contain the necessary requirements.
    行贿直接诱发受贿.是腐败产生的温床，严查行贿犯罪是当前我国遏制腐败的必然要求。
23. Enron was a model of new styles of corporate organisation when its stock price was rising and a hotbed of corporate corruption when it had gone bust.
    安然（Enron）股价上涨时，它是一种新式公司组织的典范，而当它破产倒闭时，又成了公司腐败的温床。
24. The area around Guangzhou in southern China – just over the border from Hong Kong – is another hotbed of private enterprise and the banks are focusing on towns such as Zhuhai and Dongguan.
    中国南部紧邻香港的广州周边地区是私营企业的另一个温床，外资银行把目光放在了珠海和东莞等城市上。
25. The city is a hotbed of crime.
    这个城市是犯罪的温床。
26. The supervisory system which is important in real politics offers the hotbed for the abuse of common power.
    监督制度在现实政治中的不完善为公共权力的滥用提供了温床。
27. Although the narrow circle of life is not conducive to the breeding of emotional development is a hotbed of gossip.
    狭小的生活圈子虽然不利于感情的发展却是滋生流言蜚语的温床。
28. Reich was studying composition at Mills College in California, a hotbed of-garde creativity.
    Reich在加利福尼亚米尔斯大学学习作曲，这无形中培养了他前卫的创造力。
29. Once an insurgent hotbed, it has been fairly calm for the past two years.
    这里曾经是反动势力的温床，不过近两年里这里的反动活动已经基本平息。
30. These are the seedlings that are hardening off in a hotbed.
    这些是放在温床中经受耐寒锻炼的幼苗。

noun

1. a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants

2. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)
   1. it was a hotbed of vice