English Dictionary

seclude

IPA（発音記号）

/səˈkluːd/

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude. / (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

日本語の意味

外部や他者から自分を隔離し、孤独や隠遁状態に身を置くこと。 / 社会や交友関係から退き、独りでいる状態にすること、またはその状態になること。

After the scandal, the novelist chose to seclude herself in a quiet cottage to finish her memoir.

スキャンダルの後、その小説家は回想録を仕上げるために世間から距離を置いて静かなコテージにこもることを選んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.

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.

意味（2）

(transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

secludes （ present singular third-person ）

secluding （ participle present ）

secluded （ participle past ）

secluded （ past ）