| 单词 | rubber room |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrubber room rubber room n. (a) a room used for the production, storage, or sale of rubber or rubber goods; (b) = padded cell n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill > room in rubber room1844 padded room1846 padded cell1862 pad1938 quiet room1938 1844 Bradford Observer 17 Oct. 1/5 That other Mill or Factory..used and occupied by him as Rubber Rooms, Card Setting Rooms, and for other purposes. 1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 10 Mar. 1/7 The flames..spread at once to the rubber-room, where the American Rubber Company had $3,000 worth of stock. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy 167 The padded cells, known to the wittier as the ‘quiet rooms’, ‘rubber rooms’ or, in a notable clip ‘pads’. 1988 Working Mother Jan. 72/3 I was supposed to be the equivalent of the rubber room in a mental hospital, against whose walls my children could fling themselves without getting hurt. 1992 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 9 Aug. 1 A rubber-room fire killed one worker last year. 2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads (Acknowl.) p. ix If not for my family, this project would have had me in the rubber room many times. < as lemmas |
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