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.)).
实用例句
1. to lead the life of a recluse
过隐居的生活来自《权威词典》
2. His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
他的寡妻孤寂地度过了余生。来自辞典例句
3. She can't just be written off as an eccentric recluse.
不能仅仅把她当成一个古怪的隐居者.来自辞典例句
4. All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse.
这些年来, 埃里克都是过着隐士生活.来自互联网
5. The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.
