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单词 panic room
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panic room
panic room n. (a) a room intended to cause or increase panic (rare); (b) a fortified room in a house or other building, designed to be invulnerable to violent attack or intrusion, natural disasters, etc., and often equipped with video surveillance and a means of contacting emergency services (cf. Compounds 3).In sense (b), the term was popularized by its appearance as the title of a 2002 film directed by David Fincher, the plot of which is described in quot. 2000.
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1968 Vogue 15 Apr. 50/2 Jean Toche's demoniacal Labyrinths and Psychological Stress involved blinding lights. He devised a ‘Panic Room’ in order to redirect our aggressive drives.
2000 D. Koepp Panic Room (draft film script) 7 It's called a panic room... It's quite in vogue in higher end construction right now. One really can't be too careful about home invasion.
2002 Dwell Dec. 109/3 I do keep firearms in the house, but in the safes. And no, I do not have a panic room of my own.
2012 R. R. Rapp in A. T. Carswell Encycl. Housing (ed. 2) II. 539/2 Cautious people may find that a panic room built for protection from natural threats can help thwart attacks against themselves and their families.
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