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单词 cloistered
释义 cloistered
adjective
1. : living or remaining in seclusion and aloof from normal social participation or secular concerns or from public notice or public affairs
 < he is not a cloistered intellectual — Clifton Daniel >
 < men with burning causes are generally more eloquent than cloistered dons — Heywood Broun >
2. : narrowly restricted or insulated in outlook and interests : preoccupied and detached
 < the phenomenon of a college professor leaving his cloistered life to enter a political fight >
 < the cloistered thinking of certain isolationists >
3.
 a. : sheltered or providing shelter from contact with common life and relations with the outer world : intent on its own affairs to the exclusion of external affairs
  < you might have expected such a man to end his days in the cloistered academic world of books and blackboards — Philip Pollack >
 b. : such as is provided by the isolation of a cloister
  < to recapture the cloistered serenity in his work which he had grown to love — Marcia Davenport >
 c. : cultivated or conducted in the privacy of seclusion sheltered from outside interference and the bustle of mundane life
  < a fugitive and cloistered poetry that never at any time heard the chimes at midnight — J.L.Lowes >
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