| 释义 |
‖ terem Russ. Hist.|ˈtɛrəm|
[Russ., lit. ‘tower’.]
Secluded separate quarters for women.
1898G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 8 Jan. 42/2 The seclusion of Russian women in the Terem was one of the sacred institutions of his [sc. Peter the Great's] country. 1908Cambr. Mod. Hist. V. xvii. 519 The boy soon felt cramped and stifled in the dim and close semi-religious atmosphere of Natalia's terem. 1929S. Runciman Emperor Romanus Lecapenus i. 28 It has been customary to regard the gynaecum as a prison from which Byzantine women never emerged—an exact equivalent of the Russian terem, which most historians say derived from it, forgetting Russia's two and a half centuries of Mongol rule. 1943E. M. Almedingen Frossia iv. 169 The maiden lived in her terem, its windows strictly latticed. |