| 单词 | firetrap |
| 例句 | His office was in Staten Island in a two-family firetrap just four blocks away from the ferry stop and only one block south of a supermarket, three beauty parlors, and two corrupt druggists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was one of these places with bars in the windows, wires hanging, a basic firetrap. Mads Mikkelsen, Sex Symbol With an Unearthly Twist 2010-06-05T02:07:00Z Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Later that night I see the trio in a grotty downtown firetrap, performing on a cramped club stage, showing the same degree of professionalism and commitment at four times the volume. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z In 1922, twelve years after it opened, the Commissioner-General of Immigration declared Angel Island to be filthy and unfit for habitation—“the ramshackle buildings are nothing but firetraps,” he warned. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z For others, it feels like a firetrap designed by David Lynch. ‘Sleep No More,’ Enhanced by MIT Media Lab 2012-05-22T22:30:52Z Within a few decades, that facility had also become overcrowded, and in 1957 city officials ordered it condemned because the surplus of people and shortage of emergency exits made it a firetrap. In Men’s Central Jail, fires are common, smoke alarms are not: Smells 'like a campfire' 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Johannesburg, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, has hundreds of illegally occupied derelict buildings that officials and housing advocates say have become firetraps. Fire Kills 74 in a South Africa Building Called a Disaster in Waiting 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Such jobs, without guaranteed health insurance, social security or pensions, range from the treacherous — construction work without hard hats or other protective gear, or assembly-line labor in illegal firetrap factories — to the merely miserable. Need an Onion? These Indian Apps Will Deliver It in Minutes. 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z But by the 1960s, city and business leaders dubbed it “a ramshackle firetrap” on track to “die of rot,” a derelict dinosaur. How Seattle pulled together 50 years ago to preserve Pike Place Market — and the soul of the city 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Comparatively low-cost living spaces, they are a refuge of thousands of the city’s poor, even as they are known to be firetraps. Trapped in Basements and Cars, They Lost Their Lives in Savage Storm 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z On July 16, 1967, that became too late for 38 men who died when flames swiftly devoured one of those firetraps in a remote corner of the Panhandle. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “Every New Yorker deserves a safe and legal place to live, which is why we’re committed to routing out dangerous firetraps and ordering the landlords to make these apartments safe,” DOB spokesman Andrew Rudansky said. NYC condo owner allegedly converted small apartment into 11 tiny units 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The complaint describes the Universal Studios vault that housed the recordings as “an inadequate, substandard storage warehouse… that was a known firetrap….” Soundgarden, Tupac, Hole and more sue Universal Music over recordings destroyed in 2008 fire 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Seattleites watched that scene with horror and fascination as their firetrap of a city burned. 130 years ago, poor planning added fuel to Seattle’s Great Fire 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Of course it was a dilapidated multistory firetrap. Opinion | Russell Baker, Bard in a Buick 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z A warehouse firetrap not meant for human habitation is not an "artists utopia". He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Prosecutors say the men knowingly created a firetrap and deceived the building's owner, police and fire officials about people living there. Two men to stand trial in Oakland's fatal Ghost Shop warehouse fire 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Prosecutors say the men knowingly created a firetrap and deceived the building’s owner, police and fire officials about the fact that people were living there. Anniversary of deadly fire brings heartache, reckoning 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z A world where no one and nowhere is thrown away – whether in firetrap housing estates, or on hurricane-ravaged islands. A new shock doctrine: in a world of crisis, morality can still win | Naomi Klein 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z In a news conference this year, Mr. Christie called it a “firetrap,” and in a radio interview, he said the “building is falling apart.” Critics Want Christie’s State House Repairs Halted. Governor Says, ‘I Don’t Care.’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z O’Malley says the organizers were reckless and “knowingly created a firetrap with inadequate means of escape.” The Latest: Men charged in deaths at Oakland warehouse fire 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z “The women and children’s shelter in Cairo was an old, dilapidated firetrap of a house. It wasn’t suitable to have anybody in it, even for a night,” Glenn said. EXCHANGE: Poshard Foundation helps children in crisis 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z It begins on a sprawling tomato farm, staffed by migrant workers who sleep in firetraps, neglected by the family that owns the business. The Disciplined Power of “American Crime” 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Residents and others who were inside the warehouse described it as a firetrap filled with debris and powered by makeshift wiring. What caused the deadly Ghost Ship fire? Officials aren't saying, but attorneys have unexpected theory 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Numerous residents openly used drugs, the space was clearly a firetrap, and strangers came and went. Before the deadly fire, Ghost Ship was an an enchanting 'safe place' that many called home 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Zoning Enforcement Officer James Lunney said Stamford’s expensive rental rates are the main reason for the city’s increasing number of illegal firetraps. Overcrowded homes ‘more prevalent than ever’ in Stamford 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z After one night in the run-down Victorian governor’s mansion she declared it a “noisy firetrap” and moved the family to a 12-room house in a wealthy Sacramento neighborhood, sparking cries of elitism. As first lady, Nancy Reagan’s mission was backing ‘Ronnie’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z She discovered that the 1877 mansion, which reminded her of a funeral home, was officially a “firetrap,” as the local authorities put it. Remembering Nancy Reagan: The End of a White House Love Story 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z He oversaw a group of young quantitative analysts who used data to find stores selling bootleg cigarettes and buildings illegally converted to overcrowded firetraps, among other things. Data Mining Start-Up Enigma to Expand Commercial Business 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Beams were “staying up from force of habit only,” he was informed, and the mansion had become a firetrap. Harry Truman’s Extreme Home Makeover 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z Then again, one supposes anything is better than the idea of the world's athletes winding their way through the creaky aisles of that firetrap known as Fenway Park. In shunning L.A., USOC turns down a gold-medal performer 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z But survivors told police and reporters a different story, describing the club as a firetrap. Arrests in Brazil Inferno 2013-01-28T14:43:00Z Employees on an assembly line making corporate IT equipment look bored senseless but the facilities are orderly and spotless—a far cry from South Asian firetraps. Foxconn: When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates 2012-12-13T16:07:43Z His notice criticized the demolition of the house but went further by accusing city officials of allowing the house to become a firetrap by failing to properly inspect construction work being done there. Stamford Woman to Sue City After Losing Family in Fire 2012-06-01T20:17:14Z My investigation satisfied me that it was one of the worst firetraps in the city. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z You can find your way out of this old firetrap. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z It was an old building—a regular firetrap. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z It was a frame house, and a firetrap if there ever was one. The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers We can't help shuddering at the thought of how much worse it might have been, with over a hundred sleeping children in this firetrap of a building. Dear Enemy Many of the theaters in Germany strike me as firetraps. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Streets become filthy, unsanitary tenements are built, firetrap factories and theaters allowed; every effort to improve public health is sidetracked, and the will of the people is subordinated to the will of the gang. Problems of Conduct Five million families are still living in slums and firetraps. State of the Union Address We carried no insurance, and so many would say we had a "firetrap" there. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation |
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