名詞 incubator:

1. apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants
   同義詞：brooder

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n.（名詞）
An apparatus in which environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity, can be controlled, often used for growing bacterial cultures, hatching eggs artificially, or providing suitable conditions for a chemical or biological reaction.
孵育器：一種周圍的條件如溫度和濕度能得到控制的器具，經(jīng)常用于細菌培養(yǎng)、人工孵卵或為化學或生物反應(yīng)提供適宜條件
Medicine An apparatus for maintaining an infant, especially a premature infant, in an environment of controlled temperature, humidity, and oxygen concentration.
【醫(yī)學】 早產(chǎn)嬰兒保育箱：一種保育嬰兒的器具，尤指對早產(chǎn)嬰兒，其溫度、濕度與集中供氧都得到控制
A place or situation that permits or encourages the formation and development, as of new ideas:
溫床：允許或鼓勵新的想法產(chǎn)生并發(fā)展的地方或形勢：
例句：
the college campus as an incubator of radical new sociological concepts.
大學校園是產(chǎn)生激進的社會學新概念的溫床