释义
n.
a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other
（修道院、学院、教堂的）走廊，回廊（多为一侧有墙，一侧有方庭的走道）。
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修道院生活
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he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword .他愿意过修道院生活，而非持剑征战。
a convent or monastery
女修道院；修道院。
v.
seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery
使禁闭（或隐居）于修道院
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the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate .修道院就是修士们把自己禁闭起来静思的场所。
词源
"Middle English （in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’）： from Old French