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• withdrawn from society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

• SEATTLE ( Reuters)-Paul Allen, one of the world's more reclusive billionaires, is suddenly more visible than ever these days.
  一向喜欢隐居的亿万富翁保罗-艾伦最近的日子里突然出境率比以前高了很多。
• 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。
• Japan has extended economic sanctions against North Korea, citing the reclusive country's lack of progress on an international nuclear disarmament agreement.
  日本延长了对北韩的经济制裁期限，理由是这个封闭自守的国家在执行解除核武装的国际协议方面缺乏进展。
• Cumming and Litvin said that they enjoyed with technical experts and software engineers in the process of cooperation, almost reclusive novelist and former creative experience is entirely different.
  卡明和利特说，他们很享受与技术专家和软件工程师合作的过程，这与从前小说家近乎隐居的创作经历完全不同。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But they warned that long-term risks remained, given the unpredictable nature of the reclusive regime.
  但分析人士警告，鉴于朝鲜政权反复无常的特性，长期风险依然存在。
• White House official Monday cast strong doubt on the willingness of the Taliban's reclusive leader to spurn his group's violent ways and back the Afghan government.
  一名白宫官员周一称，他很怀疑这位塔利班藏匿领导人放弃他们组织的激进道路和回归政府的积极性。
• Joseph, my husband who once charmed me with his good will and smile, now seems distant and reclusive.
  约瑟夫，曾经迷住我有他的信誉和微笑的我的丈夫，现在似乎遥远和隐退。