圍起來的地方
最字面的一層：看得見、走得到的那圈牆和那條走廊。
noun · C1
A covered walk running along the inside walls of a square courtyard, open on the garden side with a row of arches or columns. Cloisters are found in old churches, monasteries and some colleges.
迴廊
核心畫面
Picture a square of grass with a covered path running all the way round it. One side of the path is open to the garden; the other three sides are wall. You can walk for hours and never leave. That is the shape the whole word keeps: an inside you can move about in freely, and an edge you do not cross.
可以想成一方草地，外面繞著一圈有頂的走廊。走廊靠草地那面是開的，另一面是牆。你可以在裡面走上幾個小時，卻始終沒有出去…更多收起
可以想成一方草地，外面繞著一圈有頂的走廊。走廊靠草地那面是開的，另一面是牆。你可以在裡面走上幾個小時，卻始終沒有出去。這個字後來的每一個意思都留著這個形狀：裡面走得很自在，但有一道邊界不越過。From the word’s history
From Latin claustrum, an enclosed place, from claudere, to close — the same root as the word close. The name is about being shut in, not about the walk itself.
來自拉丁文 claustrum（關起來的地方），源頭是 claudere（關上），跟英文的 close 同一個老根。所以這個名字說的是「被關起來」，不是那條走廊本身——走廊只是那道封閉最好看的樣子。
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Two branches
圍起來的生活
牆還在，只是這次圍住的不是房子，而是一個人的日子。
noun · C2
Life shut away from the ordinary world — first the life of monks and nuns, and then, more loosely, any place or way of living that keeps people apart from everyday things.
與世隔絕的生活