cocooning

基本解釋

This is called nesting or cocooning.
這被稱作“築巢”或“結(jié)繭”。
To cut expenses, consumers are going out less, a phenomenon retail analysts call cocooning.
爲(wèi)了節(jié)省開支，人們會(huì)減少外出的機(jī)會(huì)，零售分析人員把這種現(xiàn)象叫做蠶居，指像蠶一樣蟄居在保護(hù)層內(nèi)的現(xiàn)象，蠶居族是爲(wèi)了節(jié)省開支。
The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago.
詞語“結(jié)繭”和“築巢”已經(jīng)走紅了二十多年了的歷史。

But the degree of cocooning portrayed in that article is surprising.
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In those exquisite dress and gowns, you can see traces of Cristobal Balenciaga by the way of cocooning bustles on the back and the volume used to create tieres and sleeves.
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A cocoon is a covering of silky threads that the larvae of moths and other insects make for themselves before they grow into adults.
If you are in a cocoon of something, you are wrapped up in it or surrounded by it.
If you are living in a cocoon, you are in an environment in which you feel protected and safe, and sometimes isolated from everyday life.
If something cocoons you from something, it protects you or isolates you from it.