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seclusion

/si-kloo-zhuhn/US // sɪˈklu ʒən //UK // (sɪˈkluːʒən) //

隐居,隔离,隐居生活,幽禁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
    • : the state of being secluded; retirement; solitude: He sought seclusion in his study.
    • : a secluded place.

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Examples

  • New federal data, released last month, confirmed widespread use of seclusion and restraint in Illinois and across the country in 2017-18, the most recent year for which data was collected.

  • In Illinois, school employees reported using seclusion or restraint at least 23,530 times on at least 5,197 students.

  • The data shows that seclusion and restraint are disproportionately used on students with disabilities and on boys.

  • Lawmakers vowed to further restrict the use of seclusion and restraint and ban some restraints, but they have not done so.

  • There’s solitude and seclusion, and how you feel about that makes a difference.

  • Ibrahim says he repeatedly wrote letters asking for his son to be taken out of seclusion.

  • On a bluff overlooking the sea, he pitched a tent and lived there for the next year in near total seclusion.

  • But his period of monastic seclusion officially comes to an end on Thursday.

  • Should they be seeking to bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities or maintain a stance of isolation and seclusion?

  • Idi Amin of Uganda, for one, died in the Kingdom after many years of quiet but apparently comfortable seclusion.

  • And now commenced a life of seclusion and retirement, which both of them enjoyed from its very novelty.

  • With them she spent a year, in a seclusion from the world almost as entire as that which she found in the solitude of the convent.

  • The seclusion in which she lived encouraged deep musings upon these vast inequalities of life.

  • In 1822 this "deserted woman" had lived for three years in the most rigid seclusion at Courcelles near Bayeux.

  • Mazaroff refrained from following, saying that he would smoke a cigarette in the seclusion of the garden.