English Dictionary

hothouse

名詞

比喩的用法 廃用

A heated greenhouse. / (figuratively) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed. / (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.

日本語の意味

加熱された温室 / （比喩的に）成長や発展が促される環境、温床 / （古語）入浴施設または売春宿

The botanist carefully adjusted the vents in the hothouse to protect the tropical orchids from the sudden cold snap.

植物学者は急な寒波から熱帯のランを守るため、加温温室の通気口を注意深く調整した。

意味（1）

A heated greenhouse.

意味（2）

(figuratively) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.

This had given him the strength to leave cadet school at seventeen and volunteer for active service, reach the rank of second lieutenant no later than his hothouse-bred contemporaries, begin his military studies in the General Staff Academy itself, and, still only twenty-five, graduate not only with top marks but with promotion out of turn for special excellence in military science.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.

and now she professes a / hot-house, which I think is a very ill house too.

意味（4）

A heated room for drying greenware.

意味（5）

(climatology) A hot state in global climate.

Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.

hothouses （ plural ）