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单词 heartland
释义 heart·land
I. \ˈhärtˌland, ˈhȧt- -ˌlaa(ə)nd, -_lənd\ noun
: an area of decisive importance : a pivotal or nuclear area
 < the entire heartland of the country, the Mississippi Basin — A.W.Baum >
 < the German industrial heartland in the Ruhr valley — Henry Wallace >
 < the temperate highlands which are the heartland of the republic — A.P.Whitaker >
 < the heartland of Eastern duck and goose shooting — Newsweek >
specifically : a central land area (as northern Eurasia from the Elbe to the Amur) conceived by geopoliticians to be capable of self-sufficiency as an economic and military unit, invulnerable to sea power, and therefore having strategic advantages for mastery of the world
II. noun
: the central geographical region of the United States in which mainstream or traditional values predominate
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