cloister
noun /ˈklɔɪstə(r)/
/ˈklɔɪstər/
- enlarge image[countable, usually plural] a covered passage with arches around a square garden, usually forming part of a cathedral, convent or monastery
（常为教堂、修院或寺院的）回廊；修院（或圣堂）禁地 - The 12th century church and cloisters remain surprisingly intact.
令人惊讶的是，12世纪的教堂和回廊依然保存完好。
- The 12th century church and cloisters remain surprisingly intact.
- [singular] life in a convent or monastery
修院（或寺院）的生活 - the calm of the cloister
修道院的幽静。
- the calm of the cloister
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’.