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.)).
雙語例句
1. to lead the life of a recluse
過隱居的生活
來自《權威詞典》
2. His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
他的寡妻孤寂地度過了余生。
來自辭典例句
3. She can't just be written off as an eccentric recluse.
不能僅僅把她當成一個古怪的隱居者.
來自辭典例句
4. All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse.
這些年來, 埃里克都是過著隱士生活.
來自互聯網
5. The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.