cloister

英 [ˈklɔɪstə(r)]

美 [ˈklɔɪstər]

n.  (常为教堂、修院或寺院的)回廊; 修院(或圣堂)禁地; 修院(或寺院)的生活
v.  使禁闭（或隐居）于修道院

复数：cloisters　过去分词：cloistered　过去式：cloistered　现在分词：cloistering　第三人称单数：cloisters　

GRE

BNC.15950 / COCA.23940

牛津词典

noun

• （常为教堂、修院或寺院的）回廊；修院（或圣堂）禁地
  a covered passage with arches around a square garden, usually forming part of a cathedral , convent or monastery
• 修院（或寺院）的生活
  life in a convent or monastery

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (修道院或大教堂的)回廊
  Acloisteris a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
  1. The thirteenth-century cloisters are amongst the most beautiful in central Italy.
     这些13世纪的回廊是意大利中部最美的建筑。

英英释义

noun

• a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
• residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
  Synonym:religious residence

verb

• seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
  1. She cloistered herself in the office
• surround with a cloister
  1. cloister the garden
• surround with a cloister, as of a garden

双语例句

• What you beheld was the interior of a cloister.
  你所看见的是一个修道院的内部。
• That cavern, which was called the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby.
  那个黑洞，大家称它为唱诗台，经过一条过道，和修院相通。
• And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason that he had been condemned to the galleys.
  何况，即使从最坏的情况设想，有危险的也只可能是他本人，总不能因自己曾被判处坐苦役牢，便可用这作理由，认为有权利判处珂赛特去进修院。
• Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in the exaggerated mists of the cloister.
  在这发轫时期，珂赛特还半浸在修院那种萦回着的烟雾里，任何更实际、更密切的接触都会使她感到唐突。
• This figure of tile study and the cloister, as Hester prynne's womanly fancy failed not to recall, was slightly deformed, with the left shoulder a trifle higher than the right.
  尽管海丝特白兰那女性的想象力竭力想摆脱他的形象，但那学者和隐士的身影还是出现了：他略带畸形，左肩比右肩稍高。
• To furnish ( a building) with a cloister.
  设回廊于用回廊装饰（一幢建筑）
• Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister.
  与尘世隔离好像在修道院里一样。
• The ancient cloister was a structure of red brick picked out with white stone.
  古老的修道院是一座白石衬托着的红砖建筑物。
• The Holy mother, saved by cloister the stupid.
  圣母被傻瓜克罗依斯特拯救。
• The fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
  乡村和寺院同是蒙昧无知的，它们的共同基础是早已存在的，因此乡民一下就可以和寺僧平起平坐，罩衫放宽一点，便成了僧衣。