shut-in ['ʃʌtin]

shut-in的基本解释

n.

被关在屋内的人, (因病弱或天气不好而)被关在屋内的人

• You don't know how uncomfortable it is to be a shut-in unless you have been one before.
• 除非自己有亲身经历，否则你不会知道不能外出的人是多么难受。

• The man became a shut-in since the death of his wife.
• 自从妻子去世后，这个男人就变成了个孤独的人。

adj.

被关在屋内的, 诡密的, 被围在中间的

• Only the shut-in patients had to stay inside on such a beautiful day.
• 只有不能外出的病人才必须在这样好的天气里待在室内。

• A sudden shut-in feeling came over her after everybody left.
• 当大家都走了之后，一种突生的孤独感向她袭来。