heartland
中心地带
definition
noun
The 2003 challenge in areas ranging from urban heartlands to rural outposts attracted record entries of almost 100.
the central or most important part of a country, area, or field of activity.
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Why, in the 'heartland' of Central Canada, where trains are allegedly a reasonable means of transportation, aren't train stations not dives?
Is this what the president thinks of us folks in the 'heartland' ?
Each of these powers flourished in a Mackinder 'heartland' (the core area of Eurasia) and saw its destiny in mercantilist imperial expansion.
There are, and here in the 'heartland' , many are disturbed by what is increasingly being recognized as the high-jacking of their Faith and they are not accepting it.
And she also had a big hit in the 'heartland' called ‘The Bumper of My SUV.’
During the prime of the Roman Republic, roughly the last two centuries B.C., it served as a northern boundary protecting the 'heartland' of Italy and the city of Rome from its own imperial armies.
wildlife sites in the 'heartland' of Russia
the 'heartland' of the rebel cause
Meanwhile, American intelligence has not yet detected signs of coordination between the Sunni rebellion in Iraq's 'heartland' and the Shiite insurgency.
How did a former potato field in the English 'heartland' come to be the site of four of the past five European Ryder Cups?
Now we have 28 nations in this world that have ballistic missile capabilities, and it's folly for us not to provide a protection to the 'heartland' of America when we can do so and make it work.
In many ways they are quite liberal themselves, at least compared to the stereotype we are fed of the ‘average’ American from the 'heartland' .
And yet that version of the 'heartland' has never really existed anymore than George Washington's cherry tree or Jack Kennedy's virtue.
What they aren't hearing are voices from the 'heartland' or for that matter voices from workers in Central America.
Herman Roth's employer, an insurance company, decides to transfer him and other Jewish workers to jobs in the 'heartland' too, ostensibly to stir the melting pot.
When reinforcements streamed from the 'heartland' of Tavisnane to support beleaguered garrisons, the people of the towns and cities they left behind rose up to reclaim their walls.
None of the council's four Sunni members represents the rural areas of the Sunni 'heartland' .
Some people might take offense to this, citing that the Midwest is the breadbasket or the 'heartland' , but I disagree.
It was Namangani's first attempt to strike out from his mountain hideouts to the strategic 'heartland' of Central Asia, the fertile, densely populated Ferghana Valley basin.
Well, that's what the Republicans think, that he is a movement candidate, who seems too out of the mainstream of the - of most Americans in the 'heartland' .
the 'heartland' of the rebel cause
It seems that forked blades might have first originated in Sanxingdui and were exported eastward to the central 'heartland' .
And that's why we got to clamp down on these poisonous perverts burrowing into the midsection of our 'heartland' with their blasphemous ceremonies.
I know he's a real rancher and down home guy, but c'mon, the whole point of the interview is to find out what Democrats should do to win in the 'heartland' , and he dispenses advice about it quite freely.
That said, there were also areas of the Sunni 'heartland' where turn-out was scarce and intimidation appeared to have won.
As I write from the 'heartland' , in a small rural town in Northwest Ohio, the world, with the help of my government, is undergoing a process of reorganization.
This city's Latino population grew by more than 1,500 percent over the past decade, part of a national trend of Latinos leaving the cities in search of America's 'heartland' .
Such urban novels were doubly marginalised, as Scottish within a British context, and as urban within a context which identified rural, Gaelic and Scots-speaking areas as the 'heartland' of the nation.
‘We've got to win in the 'heartland' of America,’ Reed said.
Indulge a little Midwestern fantasy: It may be the 'heartland' of America - the Bible belt even - but Kansas City just got a bit, well, sexier.
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