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词汇 fallout shelter
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Definition of fallout shelter in English:

fallout shelter

noun
  • A building or other structure designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.

    once the survivors have emerged from their fallout shelters, their suffering is often only beginning
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For all the talk about fallout shelters, and the exhortations of civil-defense officials, comparatively few Americans actually built them.
    • A plaque above the entrance alerts us that the building also serves as a fallout shelter.
    • All of a sudden my basement box of emergency food looked like rations in a Civilian Defense fallout shelter.
    • The paranoia which surrounded the idea of a fallout shelter was a byproduct of the large amount of fear felt by people during the nuclear age.
    • Federal civil defense authorities, meanwhile, promised survival from nuclear attack through fallout shelters and citizen readiness.
    • Civil defense programs consisted of urging families to build fallout shelters and directing the development of community air raid shelters.
    • However, he said there are no plans to open public fallout shelters.
    • Since there are no public fallout shelters, citizens would need to rely primarily on their own homes for shelter.
    • Why are we not reviving our public fallout shelter programs that would offer adequate protection?
    • Head to the basement fallout shelter and for god's sake, don't let anyone with a temperature in!

Definition of fallout shelter in US English:

fallout shelter

noun
  • A building or other structure designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.

    once the survivors have emerged from their fallout shelters, their suffering is often only beginning
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Why are we not reviving our public fallout shelter programs that would offer adequate protection?
    • However, he said there are no plans to open public fallout shelters.
    • Since there are no public fallout shelters, citizens would need to rely primarily on their own homes for shelter.
    • All of a sudden my basement box of emergency food looked like rations in a Civilian Defense fallout shelter.
    • Head to the basement fallout shelter and for god's sake, don't let anyone with a temperature in!
    • Civil defense programs consisted of urging families to build fallout shelters and directing the development of community air raid shelters.
    • A plaque above the entrance alerts us that the building also serves as a fallout shelter.
    • Federal civil defense authorities, meanwhile, promised survival from nuclear attack through fallout shelters and citizen readiness.
    • For all the talk about fallout shelters, and the exhortations of civil-defense officials, comparatively few Americans actually built them.
    • The paranoia which surrounded the idea of a fallout shelter was a byproduct of the large amount of fear felt by people during the nuclear age.
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