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hermitlike

/hur-mit/US // ˈhɜr mɪt //UK // (ˈhɜːmɪt) //

隐士般,隐士式,隐士般的,隐士式的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
    • : any person living in seclusion; recluse.
    • : Zoology. an animal of solitary habits.
    • : Ornithology. any of numerous hummingbirds of the genera Glaucis and Phaethornis, having curved bills and dull-colored rather than iridescent plumage.
    • : a spiced molasses cookie often containing raisins or nuts.
    • : Obsolete. a beadsman.

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Examples

  • Our hermit—we’ll later learn his name is Rob—trades his truffles for necessary goods.

  • I’d grown used to hermit life, and the prospect of driving across the bridge to sing in a bar with strangers seemed risky, both health-wise, with reports of new variants around the world, and socially.

  • A hermit, asked how he’s doing, answers, “Oh, same old, same old.”

  • During a summer internship for a local newspaper, she covered a hermit crab beauty pageant.

  • A trip to North Korea introduced Monisha Rajesh to Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy, which she describes as “a gripping examination of the so-called hermit kingdom through the voices of six defectors.”

  • The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever.

  • How ironic that the Hermit Kingdom is taking the blame for our first real look inside a clique that not even Vice dares penetrate.

  • Someone called him a hermit crab lurking in the halls of the United Nations.

  • The Hermit Kingdom has opened its embassy doors for an exhibit highlighting the work of six artists from its state-run studio.

  • Considering the grand tradition of un-predictability in the Hermit Kingdom, there are countless other possibilities.

  • It was the Hermit's vast store of scientific knowledge that brought the half-dead cop back to health.

  • He flattened out the slip of paper and placed it on the table in front of the Hermit.

  • In the Ozarks he made his living by hunting and fishing, and for some years lived almost the life of a hermit.

  • He took an apartment in the Temple, turned his back on his friends, and became an inaccessible hermit.

  • "But an ordinary hermit wouldn't be able to play like a virtuoso," objected Amy.