Seclusion

(noun.) the act of secluding yourself from others.

校对:沃尔多

• From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Not a human creature, large or small, appeared in any part of the sacred seclusion. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She had become prioress of Argenteuil and led a life of complete seclusion. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Booth was hurried away into seclusion, and the next morning the city that had been so gay over night with bunting was draped with mourning. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mrs. Brandley had been a friend of Miss Havisham's before the time of her seclusion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• And Mrs. Churchill probably has not health or spirits like Selina to enjoy that sort of seclusion. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The reading completed, Mr. Bruff addressed me for the first time since we had been shut up together in the seclusion of his own room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The storms of life pass harmless over the valley of Seclusion--dwell, dear lady, in the valley. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My morning hours succeeded each other calmly in the quiet and seclusion of my own room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A certain seclusion, a certain aloofness, would add greatly to the prestige of the god. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I have more than once stayed here a few nights for the sake of seclusion, said Bulstrode, indifferently; I am quite disposed to do so now. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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