1(of a seal or closure) complete and airtight.

1. 1.1 Insulated or protected from outside influences.
   不受外界影响的，与世隔绝的
   a hermetic society

   与世隔绝的社会。

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   • Nostalgic in the way trains journeys are, Nothing Down-To-Earth seems hermetic to any interaction with the outside world, retreating instead in the closeted comfort of Beullac's imaginary world.
   • Content plays a major role in Irving's music, elements drawn from outside the hermetic confines of the electronica genre.
   • In other words, the director makes the camera into the ‘ideal’ observer, situated in the story and plot, but outside of these constraints and looking into a hermetic, consistent world.
   • Siena, Spender believes, is one of the most hermetic societies you will find anywhere.
   • From the street outside, the spruced up nineteenth-century facade of the hermetic perimeter block gives little clue to the drama of the internal transformation.
   • Or for those few wealthy or talented enough, it's a hermetic fraternity dissimulating itself to the outside world through art and culture.
   • For security reasons, the cabins have no windows and are inscrutably hermetic from the outside.
   • The picture is good at spoofing the hermetic atmosphere of academia without going overboard into parody or caricature.
   • The hermetic theatre-temple can therefore be defined as a sacred space transcending the secular concerns of everyday life.
   • Still, while the album's clarity blurs a bit in the late stage, its hermetic, lustrous atmosphere remains intact - a soundtrack for the planetarium.
   • The three bands each made fans outside the genre's hermetic ghetto by embracing a world outside their laptops.
   • If you think of this as another of Altman's dissections of hermetic societies that function according to their own rules and imperatives, you may find yourself sporadically absorbed.
   • Where the upper level is cool, luminous and connects with the wider world, the lower floor is a dark, hermetic labyrinth, intended to cultivate an atmosphere of calm and detachment.
   • Every year thousands of people are losing their lives in attempts to break through this hermetic sealing-off of Europe.
   • By presuming that no intelligent political life exists outside their hermetic space, the party ensured that theirs will be a small and suffocating house.
   • Whatever comes from outside the circumference of the hermetic village is effortlessly incorporated.
   • Inscrutable and hermetic on the outside, with its rugged, cork-clad walls, the Spanish pavilion conceals a luminous public plaza at its heart.
   • Outside of a fairly hermetic subculture, comic books used to be dismissed as children's fare.
   • Summer's here, and the time is right even for hermetic glitch heads to get outside and lay back in the sun.
   • It is difficult to say how that hermetic nation views unity.

2Relating to an ancient occult tradition encompassing alchemy, astrology, and theosophy.

1. 2.1 Difficult to understand because intended for a small number of people with specialized knowledge.
   obscure and hermetic poems

   晦涩深奥的诗歌。

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   • In Another Worldy, we witness the outcome of vast jungles of nerves organized into movements that are simultaneously disciplined, mystical, hermetic, erotic and heretical.
   • For the mystic, knowledge is hermetic; it is a secret revealed to only those few who have what it takes.
   • Teasingly hermetic, liltingly musical, these are not so much poems to decode or pull apart in search of a precept or motto, as poems to sink into or wander through, enjoying a cavalcade of sensory impressions.
   • Tomorrow I go back to French class, having bolted a few weeks before the end of the half year when the darker more hermetic instincts that come with June kicked in.
   • They are always showing off; they are hermetic and secretive.
   • It has been observed often enough that references became increasingly obscure and hermetic in the nineteenth century, giving way to polymorphous primitivism and nonreferentiality.
   • To recognize that a text is hermetic does not preclude understanding how it attains such closure.
   • The hermetic obscurantism of these older texts repels a more casual reader, steeped as they are in poststructuralist theory and remote Marxist anthropology.
   • Moreover, their perplexing content is hermetic and resistant to interpretation.
   • That Hamann suffers so much neglect, one must concede, is largely the result of the willfully hermetic impenetrability of his most important works.
   • The hermeneutics used in the historicists' calculus of exploitation and oppression are less hermetic than those of new criticism and theory, but they are just as schematic.
   • Wright was, in a sense, adding apocryphal books to his own hermetic scripture with each poem.
   • The sense of heritage, of important but often barely visible poetic traditions, becomes almost theological in the depth of assumed knowledges, and hermetic in its collectivity.
   • Here, he's at his most hermetic and obscure, a long intake of breath that pulls in and in but never exhales.
   • More than anything, it is the hermetic mysteries of maths, remembered with discomfort from schooldays, that intimidate the public and make journalists wary as to how to mediate between scientists and a non-scientific audience.
   • What worries me is that the designed world might become so hermetic and the signifiers of functionality so appropriated that the opportunity for that fascination never arises.
   • This is a crucial corrective and challenge to hermetic studies of texts written by Americans.
   • Fourteen years after his death, the followers of hermetic knowledge received a blow more devastating than anything the Inquisition could deliver to their cause.
   • Smith's narratives are pretty hermetic - they have an internal logic that makes a consistent kind of sense, but are difficult to translate into an actual description of what they are about.
   • Anderson does hold the paranoid, hermetic mood for all 100 minutes and Bale is impressive, even without the thin-man gimmick.