seclude

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 secludo。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /səˈklud/

動詞

seclude (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 secludes，現在分詞 secluding，一般過去時及過去分詞 secluded)

1. 〈及物〉 隔離
   • 1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses

     If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; — there are business matters to be talked of; there are projects which children or servants should not hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.

2. 〈及物〉 隔絕

派生詞

• secluded
• secludedly

相關詞彙

• seclusion
• seclusive

參考資料

• 「seclude」，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587

異序詞

• Culdees, cedules, scedule