hothouse

英 ['hɒthaʊs]美

n. 温室；温床

adj. 温室的；过分保护的；娇弱的

中文词源

hothouse 温室，暖房

hot,热的，house,屋子。用来指湿室，暖房。

英文词源

hothouse (n.)

mid-15c., "bath house," from hot + house (n.). In 17c. a euphemism for "brothel" (similar to massage parlor); the meaning "glass-roofed structure for raising plants" is from 1749. Figurative use by 1802.

双语例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Hothouse plants do not possess exuberant vitality.

在温室里培养出来的东西,不会有强大的生命力.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. I used to keep them alive -- in a small hothouse. "

我养活它们, 养在小温室里. ”

来自百科语句

4. A country like Norway could produce bananas in hothouse.

象挪威那样的国家,在温室中也能种植香蕉.

来自辞典例句

5. That city seems to be the hothouse of decadence.

该城市似乎是堕落的温床.

来自辞典例句

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