recluse: [13] A recluse is etymologically a person who is ‘shut up’. The word was borrowed from reclus, the past participle of Old French reclure ‘shut up’. This was descended from Latin reclūdere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and claudere ‘shut’ (source of English close) which originally, paradoxically, meant ‘open’ – the notion being ‘reversing the process of closing’. ‘Shut up’ emerged in the post-classical period. => close
recluse (n.)
c. 1200, "person shut up from the world for purposes of religious meditation," from Old French reclus (fem. recluse) "hermit, recluse," also "confinement, prison; convent, monastery," noun use of reclus (adj.) "shut up," from Late Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere "to shut up, enclose" (but in classical Latin "to throw open"), from Latin re-, intensive prefix, + claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)).
双语例句
1. to lead the life of a recluse
过隐居的生活
来自《权威词典》
2. His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
他的寡妻孤寂地度过了余生。
来自辞典例句
3. She can't just be written off as an eccentric recluse.
不能仅仅把她当成一个古怪的隐居者.
来自辞典例句
4. All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse.
这些年来, 埃里克都是过着隐士生活.
来自互联网
5. The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.
