/'klɔɪstə(r); `klɔɪstɚ/
n
1 [C, often pl 常作复数] covered passage around an open court or quadrangle, with a wall on the outer side and columns or arches on the inner side, esp within a convent or college, or attached to a cathedral 回廊.
2 (a) [C] convent or monastery 修道院.
(b) [sing] life in a convent or monastery 修道院的生活
*the calm of the cloister 修道院的幽静.

v [Tn, Tn.p] ~ oneself/sb (away) shut oneself/sb away (as if) in a cloister 使自己[某人]与世隔绝（像在修道院内）
*He cloistered himself away with his books. 他只顾埋头读书. cloistered adj secluded; sheltered 隐居的; 隐匿的
*a cloistered life 隐居的生活.

n[C]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French;Origin: cloistre, from Latin claustrum 'bar keeping a door closed', from claudere 'to close']
[usually plural]
a covered passage that surrounds one side of a square garden in a church, monastery etc
a building where monks or nuns live