| 单词 | locked-room |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocked-room locked-room adj. designating a mystery or detective story involving a crime scene which no criminal could apparently have entered or left (such as a locked room); of or characteristic of such mysteries; frequently in locked-room mystery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] > involving locked room locked-room1919 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [adjective] > other specific types of fictional story metamorphosic1782 locked-room1919 sealed room1939 suspense1952 procedural1956 Boy's Own1967 1919 Times 7 Nov. 9/4 (headline) Islington locked room mystery. 1942 H. Haycraft Murder for Pleasure vi. 104 The Mystery of the Yellow Room..remains..the most brilliant of all ‘locked room’ novels. 1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle iii. 14 I listened to the dictabook on my desk, which was a deliberately old-fashioned locked-room style detective story. 1994 J. T. Irwin Mystery to Solution (1996) 411 The mental problem linked with the antagonist (the locked-room puzzle) is..a variant of the labyrinth. 2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo xii. 208 It's actually a fascinating case. What I believe is known in the trade as a locked-room mystery, on an island. < as lemmas |
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