recluse
recluse 英 [rɪˈklu:s] 美 [ˈreklus]
n. 隐士；隐居者 adj. 隐居的
名词复数:recluses
- A recluse lives alone, works alone, eats alone, and generally stays away from other people. Anti-social old hermits are recluses, as are a lot of students during exam time.
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- n. 隐士；隐居者
- adj. 隐居的
- 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.)).
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