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cloistered

/kloi-sterd/US // ˈklɔɪ stərd //UK // (ˈklɔɪstəd) //

隐居的人,隐居的,隐居,隐修的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
    • : having a cloister or cloisters.

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Examples

  • Although the inner workings of cloistered, fundamentalist communities have always been a source of pop-cultural curiosity, the past several years have seen an explosion in high-profile Haredi media.

  • It’s easy to focus on an individual glimmer or ripple, and much harder to know just where to look when observing an entire world, even a cloistered one.

  • The internet and eBay changed that, opening the cloistered world to a wider audience and making it possible for sneaker fans to connect across distances.

  • Her novel toggles back and forth between Elena’s cloistered life in Paris, Ella’s often cryptic journals and the account that Elena writes in Ella’s voice.

  • Formerly a playground for Sunday school kids, it has a spooky, cloistered feel to it.

  • But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, Bender and Patton became ever more reclusive.

  • Why should the cloistered wants of juvenile men, with baby opinions, dominate any medium and industry so many of us care about?

  • The Daily Pic: To capture cloistered life, Michelle Elzay dresses her photos alike.

  • After World War II, interstate highways opened, and new bypasses rerouted life away from cloistered downtowns.

  • But only a cloistered ecclesiastic can be held responsible for such military procedure.

  • Are you of those who think a husband should come to them as one whose youth has been the youth of cloistered nun?

  • Now, in the convent where she is cloistered all are dressed alike, all obey the rule of the same bell, all joy is gone.

  • Alicia bowed sweetly and the Sister inclined herself briefly with a cloistered smile.

  • Sometimes they are the work of departed saints or cloistered nuns; and a terrible waste of time they seem to our modern eyes.