Home and the Heartland的意思|示意

When they did go back home on long breaks, they were expected to keep office hours in the home office and to take a few trips out to the heartland to see the folks.

一旦放长假回到家乡，他们还必须在上班时间待在家乡的办公室，并且抽时间去核心地带看望一下乡亲父老。

Around Rotorua a Maori heartland and home of the mineral-rimmed Champagne Pool (above) it's easy to believe the struggle continues as the eerie landscape bubbles and churns like some primordial stew.

罗托鲁阿(rotorua)周围是毛利人的中心地带和周边富有矿物的香槟酒色水池(见上图)的发源地，这也很容易让人相信那次斗争还在继续，因为这片奇怪，神秘而可怖的地形汩汩地流动并剧烈地翻腾着，就像某种原始时代存在的炖的一锅菜一样。