cloister
pronunciation
UK [ˈklɔɪstə(r)]
US [ˈklɔɪstɚ]
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- n.
- (学院、修道院、教堂等建筑的)走廊
- 回廊
- 修道院的生活
- 隐居
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- vt.
- 隐退,使与世隔绝
Word Origin
cloister 回廊禁地
词源同close,关闭。因修道者修道之地需隐蔽而得名。
Example
- 1. Yet it was not the sweetness of life that this cloister taught me .
- 然而我在这座回廊里学到的却并非生活的甘美。
- 2. The mansion itself had once been a cloister for decrepit nuns , and was surrounded by a sculpted garden .
- 这个宅邸原本是一座住着老修女们的修道院,它被一个精雕细琢的花园所包围着。
- 3. Children had in vaded the cloister and were playing leapfrog over the tombstones that strove to perpetuate their virtues .
- 孩子们跑到回廊来,拿墓碑做跳马游戏,而墓碑还在努力使他们的美德流芳百世。
- 4. I would also spend long hours in the little gothic cloister of san francisco . Its delicate , precious colonnade shone with the fine , golden yellow of old spanish monuments .
- 我也在圣弗兰西斯科修道院的哥特式小回廊里长久地留连,廊边成排的立柱精巧入微,像西班牙的古代纪念碑一般泛出金黄色的细腻光泽。
- 5. It 's probably dangerous to enter exclusively into this realm and risk being caught in a cloister removed from the market and its accountability .
- 如果专门只进入这个领域并且冒着陷于修道院、远离尘世及其责任的风险很可能是危险的。
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