hermit: [13] Etymologically, a hermit is someone who lives alone in the desert. The word comes ultimately from Greek érēmos ‘solitary’, from which was derived erēmíā ‘desert, solitude’. Many of the early Christian hermits, notably Saint Anthony, lived not only alone but in the desert, so it was appropriate that the term erēmítēs was applied to them. It came into English via medieval Latin herēmīta and Old French hermite.
hermit (n.)
early 12c., "religious recluse," from Old French (h)eremite, from Late Latin ermita, from Greek eremites, literally "person of the desert," from eremia "desert, solitude," from eremos "uninhabited, empty, desolate, bereft," from PIE *ere- (2) "to separate" (cognates: Latin rete "net," Lithuanian retis "sieve"). Transferred sense of "person living in solitude" is from 1799. The hermit crab (1735) was so called for its solitary habits.
雙語例句
1. Research has revealed him to be [ that he was ] a hermit.
調(diào)查結(jié)果表明他原是一位隱士.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. The cave was inhabited by a hermit.
以前曾有一個隱士居住在這個洞穴里.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The hermit followed an ascetic life - style.
這個隱士過的是苦行生活.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. You'd have to do that if you was a hermit. "
你要是隱士,你也得這么做. ”
來自英漢文學(xué) - 湯姆歷險
5. He became a hermit after he was dismissed from office.