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单词 hothouse
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Definition of hothouse in English:

hothouse

noun ˈhɒthaʊsˈhɑtˌhaʊs
  • 1A heated greenhouse in which plants that need protection from cold weather are grown.

    as modifier hothouse plants
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
    • There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food.
    • They live in a small hothouse - filled with plants - that is supposed to simulate a rain forest.
    • Careful, many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all; make sure to ask.
    • These so-called cluster tomatoes are cultured in hothouses for sale during seasons when field-grown crops aren't available.
    • Several of the plants have been stolen from Berlin's hothouses - the world's second largest - along with dozens of other species of exotic plants.
    • But if you've never grown orchids before, you may wonder: Can you grow these hothouse beauties without a greenhouse?
    • Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
    • As a response to the historic site and context, to the requirements of modern hothouses and to climate, it is both sophisticated and thoughtful.
    • The stand was created to bring nature indoors, and one might draw a parallel between a hothouse plant and a landscape painting - each is an aspect of commodified nature.
    • We are talking of thousands of square kilometres of hothouses, factories and packing plants.
    • That will add huge costs for those operators who are involved in building prefabricated buildings, barns, bridges, glasshouses, and hothouses.
    • It has 288 acres of magnificent plants and glorious trees, plus hothouses, laboratories, and four museums.
    • But since they must endure the stress of forced bloom and off-season transplanting, they need special handling to make the transition from hothouse to garden.
    • Cockatiels certainly do not need hothouse conditions to breed.
    • I dream of rain, falling on everything, the dripping, peeling runnels of all gardens, from the grey sky through glass and hothouse, in the sowed order of this elder's place.
    • Specimens from all over Arkon are cultivated here, and those plants whose preferred climate does not fit that of the lands surrounding the Academy are housed in hothouses.
    • When Darwin received some new plants for the hothouse, he wrote to a friend that he and Henrietta ‘go & gloat over them.’
    • The White House is both a hothouse and a graveyard for professional loyalty.
    • Europeans, meanwhile, were captivated by the fruit and had tried to grow it in their hothouses, with varying success.
    Synonyms
    greenhouse, glasshouse, conservatory, orangery, vinery, alpine house, winter garden
    summer house, gazebo, pavilion, belvedere
    1. 1.1 An environment that encourages rapid growth or development, especially in a stifling or intense way.
      as modifier the hothouse atmosphere of the college
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Students were not potted plants to be watered in some academic hothouse, nor were they to be subjects of academic experiments.
      • The team Eriksson is building was always likely to bloom a few years hence rather than in the hothouse of this Asian summer.
      • The best-known alumni of this talent hothouse are Formula One drivers Ralf Schumacher, Christian Klien and Timo Glock.
      • It's a kind of hothouse testing ground for talent, where you might find writers taking a turn at singing, wrestlers reading poetry, or comedians playing jazz guitar.
      • But the flattery of imitation soon gave way to the condescension of tourists, as all Italy itself was already on the way to becoming a hothouse and museum.
      • This attitude toward violence was no different from that in England, except in that urban hothouse of London.
      • But the structure is characteristically tight and Rattigan captures particularly well the hothouse insularity of the Mayfair set who regard Manchester as a foreign city on which the sun never rises.
      • When Kierkegaard was twenty-two years old, he made his first foray into this literary hothouse.
      • The preparation of international rugby teams is becoming a hothouse breeding mutant plants.
      • Surely there is a point where in-house becomes hothouse.
      • In this Bohemian hothouse, our quirks and foibles flourished unchecked.
      • The Second World War was a hothouse for technological advance, the military having to innovate to survive; it produced advances in jet engines, radar, and computing, to cite three examples.
      • During their respective seasons, the national capitals, county towns, and resorts were hothouses of competition, as the company, dressed to the nines, jockeyed with each other for the last ounce of prestige.
      • The science and technology hothouse is built on land that was once part of RAF Martlesham Heath.
      • Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever.
      • Edmonton's own DIY movie hothouse presents the fruits of its labours.
      • In our culture, work of this kind sometimes seems a form of diminishment, either a taking away of the illusions of the past or a hothouse re-creation of them.
      • My school was a thrusting hothouse of academic achievement.
      • Senior faculty scour the world for young researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral candidates who might thrive in this cross-disciplinary hothouse.
      • Jimmy was sent to his father's old school, the intellectual hothouse of Winchester, where he was driven by the need to restore the family fortune.
      Synonyms
      intense, oppressive, stifling
      oversheltered, overprotected, pampered, coddled, shielded
verb ˈhɒthaʊsˈhɑtˌhaʊs
[with object]
  • Educate or teach (a child) to a high level at an earlier age than is usual.

    a school that had a reputation for hothousing its girls
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His is not a story of hothousing a talent through academies from early boyhood.
    • She would become quite animated on the subject of early education for preschoolers - ‘absurd’ - or if encountering a real atrocity such as hothousing: ‘bloody absurd’.
    • The Irishman sitting between Scottie Brown and Kevin Thomson would positively hothouse the development of these two superb prospects, and Keane will have that effect on Celtic's youngsters.
    • ‘You can take it all a bit too seriously, get into hothousing and learn the sign for every single word,’ she says.
    • They are common throughout China, but many Westerners consider their hothousing of developing child athletes as cruel.
    • We offer tangible value to the individuals behind the idea and then, by hothousing the concept, we offer investors a very sound proposition indeed.
    • I am not saying that my parents hothoused us; far from it.
    • Her five year old so doesn't want to be hothoused and forced into hateful activity after hateful activity.
    • ‘My programme is the opposite of hothousing,’ she insists.
    • Maradia is not the product of an expensive private school or aspiring middle class parents who hope to hothouse her into academic brilliance.
    • The former Scottish national tennis coach has launched an online guide to the pitfalls of hothousing sporting prodigies.
    • And, even among the 2% of children who are naturally ‘gifted’, there's little evidence hothousing does any good.
    • The mother of Andy Murray, Britain's teenage tennis sensation, has produced a guide to the pitfalls of being a ‘pushy parent’ when hothousing a sporting prodigy.

Rhymes

pothouse
 
 

Definition of hothouse in US English:

hothouse

nounˈhätˌhousˈhɑtˌhaʊs
  • 1A heated building, typically made largely of glass, for rearing plants out of season or in a climate colder than is natural for them.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a response to the historic site and context, to the requirements of modern hothouses and to climate, it is both sophisticated and thoughtful.
    • Careful, many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all; make sure to ask.
    • It has 288 acres of magnificent plants and glorious trees, plus hothouses, laboratories, and four museums.
    • They live in a small hothouse - filled with plants - that is supposed to simulate a rain forest.
    • Several of the plants have been stolen from Berlin's hothouses - the world's second largest - along with dozens of other species of exotic plants.
    • When Darwin received some new plants for the hothouse, he wrote to a friend that he and Henrietta ‘go & gloat over them.’
    • Cockatiels certainly do not need hothouse conditions to breed.
    • There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food.
    • The stand was created to bring nature indoors, and one might draw a parallel between a hothouse plant and a landscape painting - each is an aspect of commodified nature.
    • I dream of rain, falling on everything, the dripping, peeling runnels of all gardens, from the grey sky through glass and hothouse, in the sowed order of this elder's place.
    • But if you've never grown orchids before, you may wonder: Can you grow these hothouse beauties without a greenhouse?
    • We are talking of thousands of square kilometres of hothouses, factories and packing plants.
    • These so-called cluster tomatoes are cultured in hothouses for sale during seasons when field-grown crops aren't available.
    • That will add huge costs for those operators who are involved in building prefabricated buildings, barns, bridges, glasshouses, and hothouses.
    • The central glasshouse had two lean-to hothouses, one dry for cacti, the other humid for tropical plants.
    • But since they must endure the stress of forced bloom and off-season transplanting, they need special handling to make the transition from hothouse to garden.
    • The White House is both a hothouse and a graveyard for professional loyalty.
    • Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
    • Specimens from all over Arkon are cultivated here, and those plants whose preferred climate does not fit that of the lands surrounding the Academy are housed in hothouses.
    • Europeans, meanwhile, were captivated by the fruit and had tried to grow it in their hothouses, with varying success.
    Synonyms
    greenhouse, glasshouse, conservatory, orangery, vinery, alpine house, winter garden
    1. 1.1 An environment that encourages rapid growth or development, especially in a stifling or intense way.
      as modifier the hothouse atmosphere of the college
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The science and technology hothouse is built on land that was once part of RAF Martlesham Heath.
      • The preparation of international rugby teams is becoming a hothouse breeding mutant plants.
      • The Second World War was a hothouse for technological advance, the military having to innovate to survive; it produced advances in jet engines, radar, and computing, to cite three examples.
      • The best-known alumni of this talent hothouse are Formula One drivers Ralf Schumacher, Christian Klien and Timo Glock.
      • This attitude toward violence was no different from that in England, except in that urban hothouse of London.
      • Students were not potted plants to be watered in some academic hothouse, nor were they to be subjects of academic experiments.
      • When Kierkegaard was twenty-two years old, he made his first foray into this literary hothouse.
      • Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever.
      • It's a kind of hothouse testing ground for talent, where you might find writers taking a turn at singing, wrestlers reading poetry, or comedians playing jazz guitar.
      • But the structure is characteristically tight and Rattigan captures particularly well the hothouse insularity of the Mayfair set who regard Manchester as a foreign city on which the sun never rises.
      • In our culture, work of this kind sometimes seems a form of diminishment, either a taking away of the illusions of the past or a hothouse re-creation of them.
      • Senior faculty scour the world for young researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral candidates who might thrive in this cross-disciplinary hothouse.
      • Surely there is a point where in-house becomes hothouse.
      • But the flattery of imitation soon gave way to the condescension of tourists, as all Italy itself was already on the way to becoming a hothouse and museum.
      • The team Eriksson is building was always likely to bloom a few years hence rather than in the hothouse of this Asian summer.
      • My school was a thrusting hothouse of academic achievement.
      • Edmonton's own DIY movie hothouse presents the fruits of its labours.
      • In this Bohemian hothouse, our quirks and foibles flourished unchecked.
      • During their respective seasons, the national capitals, county towns, and resorts were hothouses of competition, as the company, dressed to the nines, jockeyed with each other for the last ounce of prestige.
      • Jimmy was sent to his father's old school, the intellectual hothouse of Winchester, where he was driven by the need to restore the family fortune.
      Synonyms
      intense, oppressive, stifling
verbˈhätˌhousˈhɑtˌhaʊs
[with object]
  • Educate (a child) to a high level at an earlier age than is usual.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His is not a story of hothousing a talent through academies from early boyhood.
    • We offer tangible value to the individuals behind the idea and then, by hothousing the concept, we offer investors a very sound proposition indeed.
    • Her five year old so doesn't want to be hothoused and forced into hateful activity after hateful activity.
    • Maradia is not the product of an expensive private school or aspiring middle class parents who hope to hothouse her into academic brilliance.
    • The Irishman sitting between Scottie Brown and Kevin Thomson would positively hothouse the development of these two superb prospects, and Keane will have that effect on Celtic's youngsters.
    • And, even among the 2% of children who are naturally ‘gifted’, there's little evidence hothousing does any good.
    • ‘My programme is the opposite of hothousing,’ she insists.
    • The former Scottish national tennis coach has launched an online guide to the pitfalls of hothousing sporting prodigies.
    • ‘You can take it all a bit too seriously, get into hothousing and learn the sign for every single word,’ she says.
    • I am not saying that my parents hothoused us; far from it.
    • The mother of Andy Murray, Britain's teenage tennis sensation, has produced a guide to the pitfalls of being a ‘pushy parent’ when hothousing a sporting prodigy.
    • She would become quite animated on the subject of early education for preschoolers - ‘absurd’ - or if encountering a real atrocity such as hothousing: ‘bloody absurd’.
    • They are common throughout China, but many Westerners consider their hothousing of developing child athletes as cruel.
 
 
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