recluse

re-,表强调，-clus,关闭，词源同 close,claustrophobia.引申词义喜欢独处的人。

recluse

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.
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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.)).

1. to lead the life of a recluse

过隐居的生活

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。

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.

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.

5. The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.

这位老隐士与外面的世界隔绝了.