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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• The Prevention and Cure to Plant Diseases and Insect Pests and the Hothouse Cherry's Tomato Has Been Influenced by Low Temperature Cold Disaster
  低温冷害对温室樱桃番茄的影响和病虫害防治
• When the aloe which grows wild in Fujian comes to Beijing, it is ushered into a hothouse and given the beautiful name "Dragon Tongue Orchid".
  福建野生着的芦荟，一到北京就进温室，且美其名曰“龙舌兰”。
• Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
  对于北国的花园说来，它是太娇嫩了；
• Mr. Craig had been proud to show his taste and his hothouse plants on the occasion.
  在这种场合，克莱格先生正好来表现他的风雅嗜好和炫示那些在温室里培养出来的花草。
• In short, however high and false the temperature at which the Doctor kept his hothouse, the owners of the plants were always ready to lend a helping hand at the bellows, and to stir the fire.
  总而言之，布林伯博士把他的温室的温度不论弄得多么高，多么不适当，那些植物的主人总是准备伸出手来帮他拉风箱，把火煽旺的。
• People cultivating their feelings in a kind of hothouse atmosphere.
  在某种充满激情的氛围中陶冶情绪的人们。
• It is focusing on a defensible global niche, telecommunications networks, and trying to turn itself into a creative hothouse.
  目前，爱立信专注于一个自身防备强大的全球利基市场：电信网络；并且逐渐将自身转变为创新型企业。