recluse

英 [rɪˈkluːs]

美 [ˈrekluːs]

n.  隐居者; 喜欢独处的人

复数：recluses　第三人称单数：recluses　

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BNC.21522 / COCA.21060

牛津词典

noun

• 隐居者；喜欢独处的人
  a person who lives alone and likes to avoid other people
  1. to lead the life of a recluse
     过隐居的生活

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 隐居者；隐士
  Arecluseis a person who lives alone and deliberately avoids other people.
  1. His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
     他的寡妻孤寂地度过了余生。

英英释义

noun

• one who lives in solitude
  Synonym:hermitsolitarysolitudinariantroglodyte

adj

• withdrawn from society
  1. lived an unsocial reclusive life
  Synonym:reclusivewithdrawn

双语例句

• He gives the impression of a recluse.
  他给人以隐士的印象。
• A person who lives alone; a recluse.
  遁世者单独生活的人；遁世者。
• You must find a happy medium between going out every night of the week and living the life of a recluse.
  你必须在每晚都外出和过隐居生活之间寻找一个折中的办法。
• Indeed, this is extremely valuable for a modern man with such a pure impulse and recluse quality.
  一个现代人还能有这样一种纯粹的冲动和隐士的品质，实在是太难能可贵了。
• She is emphatically not a recluse.
  她显然不是个遁世者。
• Visitors who caught sight of him in New Hampshire where he lived described an unkempt recluse.
  曾有访客在其居住地新罕布什尔州见过他，把他描绘成一位不修边幅的隐士。
• You are not a recluse and you can fare well without solitude but your own unique and individual creative powers are developed through your own individual reflections.
  你不是一位隐士，不离群索居你也能过得很好，不过你的独特的个人创造力是通过你个人独自沉思而获得的。
• Its splendor is a cold splendor, and like the recluse, the cooler the atmosphere it finds itself in, the better it prospers.
  它的光辉是一种寒冷的光辉，同时，它和隐居者一样，在越寒冷的空气中，它便越加茂盛。
• Wuthering Heights and Mr Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.
  呼啸山庄和希刺克厉夫先生对她来说，是不存在的；她是一个道地的隐居者；而且，她显然也已很知足了。
• He is a millionaire recluse who refuses to give interviews.
  他是个隐居的百万富翁，拒绝接受采访。