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Hotbed 英 Hɒtbed] 美 Hɑːtbed N.温床 Bureaucracy Bribery Corruption

英语单词 hotbed
英美音标 英 ['hɒtbed] 美 ['hɑːtbed]
中文释义 n.温床
英语例句 (1) Bureaucracy is a hotbed of bribery and corruption.
(2) Which led anti-Nazis to paint the National Socialist Party as a homosexual hotbed.
中文例句 (1) 官僚主义是贿赂和腐败的温床。
(2) 这使得反纳粹者把国家社会党指斥为同性恋的温床。
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词](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.
  [with supp]
  [emphasis]
  • ...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

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