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- 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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the cloister
monastic life修道院生活：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。
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- a convent or monastery女修道院; 修道院。
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- seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery使禁闭（或隐居）于修道院：
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。
派生词
cloistral
adjective词源
Middle English （in the sense 'place of religious seclusion'）： from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum 'lock, enclosed place', from claudere, 'to close'.