| 词汇 | breeding-ground |
| 释义 | breeding ground noun[ C ] uk /ˈbriː.dɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/ us /ˈbriː.dɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/ a place where animals breed and produce their babies: （动物的）繁殖地 These animals always return to the same breeding ground.这些动物总是回到同一个地方繁殖。 a place where something develops easily, especially something unpleasant: （尤指坏事的）滋生地 Poor housing conditions are breeding grounds for crime.糟糕的居住环境滋生犯罪。 Breeds & breeding American bully beget breeder breeding brood mare crossable full-blooded heritage heritage breed inbred inbreeding pedigree pedigreed puppy farm puppy mill purebred stud teaser thoroughbred well bred You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Origins and sources breeding ground | American Dictionarybreeding ground noun[ C ] us/ˈbri·dɪŋ ˌɡrɑʊnd/ a place or condition that produces or causes a lot of something, esp. something bad: Poverty is a breeding ground for crime. Examples of breeding groundbreeding ground It is a visual0verbal idea that we can see being manifested, a dynamic breedingground for all narratives. Calvinism became the most important breedingground of the capitalistic spirit. In the attempt to destroy the mosquito's breedingground, the authorities rarely consulted local people, thus alienating potential patients. To what extent did this functionalist streak provide a fertile breedingground for the ensuing debate? But the school was not simply a breedingground for new ceremonialists, and plenty of students picked up rather different messages. The area between the thick layers of ice and the underwater ocean is potential breedingground for a host of bacteria, cells, and biomolecules. And, in a favourable environment, the university could be a breedingground for originality and innovation. The interstate competition for capital in a federal system provided a breedingground for the experimentation of state laws. It was believed that the squatters were a breedingground for fire and disease, a great risk to public health and public order that had to be eradicated. It is uncertain as yet, however, whether the species is sufficiently numerous or widely distributed to be of more than local importance in affording a winter breedingground for stainers. An appreciation of corruption's debilitating economic impact and consequently its role as a breedingground for local and global poverty must be made widely known to the general public. The country's urban and rural poor live in conditions of marginality and impoverishment which have been a breedingground for disaffection, criminality and political violence over decades. This is how the breedingground for those secession movements grows. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This influx of marginalised individuals provides a breedingground for all sorts of crime and exploitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we tolerate unemployment and exclusion among the young, we establish a breedingground for intolerance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of breeding ground These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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