英语词汇hotbed的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hotbed. Hotbed, a gardener’s term for a glass-covered bed of soil heated by decaying manure or electrical cables in which seedlings are raised early in spring, has since the 18th century been used to mean a place favoring rapid growth of something disliked or unwanted. At that time one writer called theater “the devil’s hotbed.” The gardening term “hothouse,” an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants, also does double duty, meaning “overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate,” as in “He grew up in a hothouse environment.”

词汇	hotbed
词源	hotbed. Hotbed, a gardener’s term for a glass-covered bed of soil heated by decaying manure or electrical cables in which seedlings are raised early in spring, has since the 18th century been used to mean a place favoring rapid growth of something disliked or unwanted. At that time one writer called theater “the devil’s hotbed.” The gardening term “hothouse,” an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants, also does double duty, meaning “overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate,” as in “He grew up in a hothouse environment.”
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