Cloister
['klɒɪstə] or ['klɔɪstɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions).
(verb.) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; 'She cloistered herself in the office'.
(verb.) surround with a cloister; 'cloister the garden'.
(verb.) surround with a cloister, as of a garden.
珍宁校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) An inclosed place.
(v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
(v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
(v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
手打:谢莉
同义词及近义词:
n. Convent, monastery, abbey, nunnery, priory.
录入:索菲娅
解释:
n. a covered arcade forming part of a monastic or collegiate establishment: a place of religious retirement a monastery or nunnery: an enclosed place.—v.t. to confine in a cloister: to confine within walls.—adjs. Clois′teral Clois′tral Claus′tral pertaining or confined to a cloister: secluded; Clois′tered dwelling in cloisters.—ns. Clois′terer one belonging to a cloister; Clois′ter-garth the court or yard enclosed by a cloister; Clois′tress (Shak.) a nun.—The cloister the monastic life.
整理:特蕾西
娱乐性解释:
To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present surroundings, and you will soon seek new environments. For a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her life will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow.
爱德温录入
例句:
- A rich American had bought a tract of central real estate in Paris and had built a row of shops arranged on the two sides of a cloister. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But she gave us her blessing, and the assurance of her lasting friendship, and spoke to us, generally, as became a Voice from the Cloister. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- And there really was a churchyard outside under some cloisters, for I saw the gravestones from the staircase window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is said he found such a place in the ruined cloisters of the Monastery of St. Arbogast in the suburbs of Strasburg. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- We're not cloistered. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
整理:帕斯夸里