Retirement
[rɪ'taɪəm(ə)nt] or [rɪ'taɪɚmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; 'the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity'.
(noun.) withdrawal from your position or occupation.
(noun.) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation.
錄入:奥维尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
(n.) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
艾伦校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Privacy, seclusion, retreat.
校對:佩德罗
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Solitude, privacy, departure, seclusion, recess, concavity, retreat
ANT:Publicity, approach, advance, prominence, protrusion, convexity
整理:辛克莱
例句/造句/用法:
- When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give upparties, balls, playsfor I had no fear of retirement. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- About his losses, maybe; or the little retirement in the country that he's just left, eh? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Exercise your fine natural sense and remain in retirement. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- These two ladies now emerged from their retirement, and proposed to take Dora to live at Putney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Flora had 'gone to lie down' in the next room, concurrently with which retirement a smell of something to drink had broken out in the house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- You spoke of a retirement, sir; and retirement and solitude are dull: too dull for you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We, in our retirement, remained long in ignorance of her misfortune. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She lives in the strictest retirement at Versailles. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- On everything there was the same air of retirement and cleanliness that marked the house outside. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Early the next morning, I set forth for the little town of Dorking--the place of Sergeant Cuff's retirement, as indicated to me by Betteredge. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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