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单词 sick building
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sick building
sick building n. a building, typically a large, older, relatively poorly maintained office building, in which occupants report an increased incidence of non-specific upper respiratory and other symptoms (sick building syndrome), which have been attributed to factors such as temperature, humidity, indoor air pollutants, noise levels, and visual display units; also in extended use.
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1983 Progressive Archit. Mar. 143/1 To the degree that buildings have always developed problems, there have always been people concerned with healing, or at least treating the symptoms of, ‘sick’ buildings.
1987 Washington Business Jrnl. 6 July 21 Within these potentially infested, or ‘sick’ buildings, occupants often have hints of trouble right under their noses.
1996 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 14 Sept. Several risk factors..have been identified from a large number of studies on the epidemiology of the syndrome and investigations of ‘sick’ buildings.
1997 GQ Sept. 147/2 Stein viewed Scottish football as a sick building where it was difficult to stay ‘without catching some of the disease’.
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