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 heartland ['hɑ:tlænd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 心脏地区, 中心地带

  1. It's the first major airstrike in the country's Christian heartland.
    这是以色列首次在黎巴嫩基督教徒聚居中心地进行大规模空袭。
  2. We're going to travel through the farming heartland of America this summer.
    今年夏天,我们打算经过美国中部的农业地区来一次旅行。
  3. Which region is known as the industrial and manufacturing heartland of Canada?
    哪个地区享有加拿大工业与制造业的心脏地带的美誉?


heartland
[ noun ]
the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture
<noun.location>


  1. They have been rallying by the hundreds of thousands to push for more control over Kosovo, an ancient Slav heartland bordering Albania that is now dominated by ethnic Albanians.
  2. Michel Aoun, whose 11-month mutiny in the Christian heartland was crushed by a Syrian-led military blitz.
  3. The only passenger vessel that serves the Christian heartland came under Syrian fire at the port of Jounieh north of Beirut today and fled back to its home port in Cyprus, police said.
  4. Baltimore, a 12-hour sail up the bay from the Atlantic Ocean, once was insulated from hard times by its position as the harbor closest to the nation's industrial heartland.
  5. The inter-Christian fighting for control of the Christian heartland east and northeast of Beirut killed more than 76 people and wounded 200, by police count.
  6. The battle for control of Lebanon's Christian heartland will have a profound impact on efforts to hold this fractured country together.
  7. Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle, back in Washington after campaigning in Pennsylvania's Republican heartland, sounded a Halloween theme during his travels Friday.
  8. The next two films are tales of two heartland Americans who came to rethink the verities of their upbringing.
  9. Police blamed that attack and a series of shootings throughout the Sinhalese heartland on the People's Liberation Front.
  10. Meanwhile, farmers in the agricultural heartland of the north blocked a main highway leading to the West German border with scores of tractors and trucks, ADN said.
  11. In an interview, Mr. Clinton says he always believed that "this thing would probably come down to Illinois and what happens in the industrial heartland after Super Tuesday."
  12. The 200,000 Kosovo Serbs and Montenegrins, a minority in what was once a Serbian heartland, want to end alleged harassment by the ethnic Albanian majority.
  13. But the conservatives triumphed in the densely populated industrial areas of Thuringia and Saxony, the prewar heartland of German socialism.
  14. The Albanians say the Serbs, who claim Kosovo as their medieval heartland, are persecuting them and denying them equal rights as Yugoslav citizens.
  15. Unemployment fell in April to 5.4 percent, the lowest it has been since 1974, with export-led hiring on factory assembly lines in the industrial heartland leading the latest spurt of new jobs, the government said Friday.
  16. Crucial runoffs will also be held in the country's vast Slavic heartland in the republics of Byelorussia, Russia and the Ukraine.
  17. We co-ordinate all the large projects.' Taking pride of place among these developments is the transformation of Daxie Island, situated to the south of Ningbo port and offering access to China's industrial heartland in the Yangtze river delta.
  18. The region north of Beirut was the heartland of Maronite Catholics, the dominant Christian sect.
  19. Vlasi's ouster has been demanded by hundreds of thousands of Serbs rallying in recent weeks to press for more Serbian control over Kosovo, an ancient Serbian heartland now dominated by an ethnic Albanian majority.
  20. The army opened fire and killed at 15 people when thousands of anti-government demonstrators defied curfews today in three towns in the Sinhalese heartland, police said.
  21. The heartland was rather a letdown.
  22. Bush, budget director Richard Darman and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady briefed regional journalists in an effort to win support in the heartland for the package of taxes and spending cuts.
  23. In the nation's heartland, hundreds of residents of Coralville, Iowa, lined the streets for the community's annual Fourth of July parade and applauded a very international procession.
  24. "They have bought this thesis about the party's dangerous drift away from the so-called heartland.
  25. Candidates who want faster reform won elections across the nation's Slavic heartland and Boris N. Yeltsin easily gained a legislative seat in the Russian republic, unofficial returns indicated Monday.
  26. Residents of the Sinhalese heartland east and south of the capital said business was at a standstill in their towns.
  27. At least 5,000 people have been killed in the Sinhalese heartland of central and southern Sri Lanka since July 1987, when the government signed an Indian-brokered accord designed to end an insurgency by Tamil militants in northeastern Sri Lanka.
  28. Wal-Mart's flag-waving patriotism also seems to have struck a responsive chord in the small towns and cities in the heartland, where the chain has multiplied.
  29. Panicked civilians were trying to flee the dense Moslem heartland into Serb-held areas of Croatia. 'Roads are flooded by people.' said Mr Peter Kessler, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
  30. But a wider August deficit won't erase the trade gains, which have created jobs and helped revive the languishing industrial heartland.
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