词汇 | cocooned |
释义 | cocooned past simple and past participle ofcocoon cocoon verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /kəˈkuːn/ us /kəˈkuːn/ to protect someone or something from pain or an unpleasant situation: 给…加上保护层,将…裹住 As a student you're cocooned against/from the real world.作为一名学生,你处在与现实世界隔离的环境之中。 Defending and protecting air defence anti-bug anti-mosquito baby bandobast cocoon duck duck and coveridiom embedded featherbedding fight back hedge insulate poisonous security camera security light self-protective self-protectiveness shelter smother Examples of cocoonedcocooned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We tend to be cocooned in this establishment and the usual channels try to keep us here as long as possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will be so cocooned in their own ministerial world that they will not be aware of what is happening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly, their views are often cocooned in humbug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not need to be cocooned with restrictive practices and guarantees of state work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet we do not live in cocooned isolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those who live cocooned in that kind of political and physical comfort often can be much more detached, if not semi-detached, about these affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, cocooned in their glass and steel offices and their limos, they will do better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will realise the nonsense of having prepared machinery and paraphernalia which is, as it were, cocooned for the ultimate of a war situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been told that they are now to be cocooned until new engines are available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a fact that market forces prevail in one energy industry—coal—but the nuclear industry is cocooned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an extravagant distortion to call this a demand to be "cocooned in subsidies". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are those who believe that the countryside should be cocooned and preserved for posterity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can therefore say that new towns are cocooned in a suffocating featherbed of statutory protection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are cocooned against such advice and pressures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet year after year as a nation we seem to have cocooned the initiative and enterprise of people with a web of restrictions and disincentives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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