reclusive

英 [rɪˈkluːsɪv]

美 [rɪˈkluːsɪv]

adj.  (人或动物)隐居的，独居的，遁世的

BNC.32739 / COCA.17518

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 独居的;隐居的;遁世的
  Areclusiveperson or animal lives alone and deliberately avoids the company of others.
  1. She had been living a reclusive life in Los Angeles since her marriage broke up.
     自从离婚后她一直在洛杉矶过着独居的生活。
  2. She had become increasingly ill and reclusive.
     她病得越来越重，越来越孤僻。

英英释义

adj

• providing privacy or seclusion
  1. the cloistered academic world of books
  2. sat close together in the sequestered pergola
  3. sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree
  4. a secluded romantic spot
  Synonym:cloisteredsecludedsequestered
• withdrawn from society
  1. lived an unsocial reclusive life
  Synonym:reclusewithdrawn

双语例句

• Emily Dickinson: An Artistic Reclusive Life of Deconstructing Traditional Conventions
  艾米莉·狄金森：解构传统的隐退艺术人生
• My marriage has broken up. It has made me reclusive and unsociable
  我的婚姻破裂了。这让我变得孤僻、不愿与人来往。
• For those burning with curiosity about the rather reclusive but currently most influential woman in Europe, this could be essential reading.
  如果有人对这位当今欧洲最有影响，却又相当低调的女子充满好奇的话，那他可能要读一读这篇文章了。
• Being an introvert does not mean being socially reclusive.
  性格内向并不意味着与世隔绝。
• Even reclusive bedroom coders are finding that real-world meetings are increasingly important for their own creativity.
  甚至连隐居在家的程序员们也开始觉得，现实世界的聚会对他们自身的创造力越来越重要。
• But Mr Oh was watching them in North Korea, where Kim Jong-il has for years restricted access to outside information as part of his efforts to convince the reclusive state's 23m people that they live in a socialist paradise.
  多年来，朝鲜领导人金正日（KimJong-il）一直严格限制国民接触外部信息，旨在让这个与世隔绝国家的2300万人民相信，他们生活在一个社会主义天堂里。
• These reclusive, wily jungle trolls are considered to be the highest authority within their respective warbands.
  这些隐遁的，足智多谋的丛林巨魔在他们各自的战斗部落中享有最崇高的威望。
• The majority of serial killers are not reclusive, social misfits who live alone.
  大部分连环杀手都不是跟环境格格不入的独居者。
• Yet its reclusive co-founder and CEO, Ben Silbermann, still thinks of the company as small.
  不过，公司深居简出的联席创始人兼首席执行官本•西尔伯曼仍然认为Pinterest还是一家小公司。
• China is the closest ally of reclusive North Korea.
  中国是北韩这个封闭国家的最亲近盟友。