cloister
n
1 [C, often pl 常作復數]
covered passage around an open court or quadrangle, with a wall on the outer side and columns or arches on the inner side, esp within a convent or college, or attached to a cathedral 回廊.
2
(a) [C] convent or monastery 修道院.
(b) [sing] life in a convent or monastery 修道院的生活
the calm of the cloister 修道院的幽靜. cloister, v [Tn, Tn.p]
~ oneself/sb (away) shut oneself/sb away (as if) in a cloister 使自己[某人]與世隔絕(像在修道院內)
He cloistered himself away with his books. 他只顧埋頭讀書. cloistered adj secluded; sheltered 隱居的; 隱匿的
a cloistered life 隱居的生活.