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词汇 Anderson shelter
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Definition of Anderson shelter in English:

Anderson shelter

nounˈandəsən ʃɛltə
historical
  • A small prefabricated air-raid shelter of a type built in the UK during the Second World War.

    〈史〉安德森防空掩蔽所(第二次世界大战时建在英国的一种小型预制式防空掩蔽所)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Inside Red House, which is dressed out as 19th century, they had put an exhibition entitled ‘War on the home front,’ in a couple of the rooms, including a mock-up of an Anderson shelter, with full sound effects of an air raid.
    • Many people did not want to leave their homes, and even owners of Anderson shelters would forsake their shelters for the comfort of the understairs cupboard.
    • To prevent such a thing from coming to pass Anderson shelters were distributed, the first arriving in September 1939, the week after war was declared.
    • By the outbreak of war, enough covered trenches were available to shelter half a million people and nearly one and a half million Anderson shelters had been issued free to householders with gardens.
    • When the bombs started falling, the family took to an Anderson shelter and a garden shed.

Origin

1930s: named after Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary in 1939–40 when the shelter was adopted.

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