A recluse is a person who lives alone away from the world and avoids other people.

隐士就是一个离群索居。

A hermit in other words, or a recluse – two ways of describing people who live alone and avoid others.

换句话说是一个隐士或者隐居者——对独自生活并避免与他接触种描述方式。

She now leads the life of a recluse.

【lead】她现在过着隐居生活。

Klaus' obsessions have made him paranoid. He's a recluse. He trusts only those in his immediate circle.

克劳斯长期痴迷于此，变得偏执多疑。独来独。信最亲近。

I only had a year left to go to this school before college, and I was mentally prepared for the life of a recluse.

我在上大学前剩下一年时间了 我已经为隐居生活做好了心理准备。

Confucius's dictum advised that when the Emperor was evil, people should become recluses – people, like hermits, who live alone and avoid contact with others.

无道则隐——隐居者就像隐士一样，独自生活，避免与他接触。

Here's Meng Hu talking about Confucius to BBC World Service programme, The Why Factor: His dictum was something like, 'When the Emperor is good, serve. When the Emperor is evil, recluse'.

胡孟同BBC全球服务节目The Why Factor谈到了孔子：孔子格言是类似：" 天下有道则见，无道则隐" 。

And so over a thousand years at least there were a lot of recluses, there were a lot of educated men who simply couldn't tolerate any more evil – they simply dropped out and they would migrate to small villages, to farms.

至少在千年时间里有很多隐居者，有很多受过教育却完全无法忍受任何污浊，他们避世不出，移居到小村庄，农庄。