cocooning

基本解释

This is called nesting or cocooning.
这被称作“筑巢”或“结茧”。
To cut expenses, consumers are going out less, a phenomenon retail analysts call cocooning.
为了节省开支，人们会减少外出的机会，零售分析人员把这种现象叫做蚕居，指像蚕一样蛰居在保护层内的现象，蚕居族是为了节省开支。
The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago.
词语“结茧”和“筑巢”已经走红了二十多年了的历史。

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.