1 ADJ-GRADED [ADJ n] [verb-link ADJ] 秘密的;机密的;保密的 If something is
secret, it is known about by only a small number of people, and is not told or shown to anyone else.
秘密的;机密的;保密的 3 N-COUNT 秘密;机密;内情 A
secret is a fact that is known by only a small number of people, and is not told to anyone else.
秘密;机密;内情 -
I think he enjoyed keeping our love a secret.
我觉得他喜欢和我偷偷摸摸地谈恋爱。
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I didn't want anyone to know about it, it was my secret.
我不想任何人知道这件事,这是我的秘密。
4 N-SING 秘诀;诀窍 If you say that a particular way of doing things is
the secret of achieving something, you mean that it is the best or only way to achieve it.
秘诀;诀窍 5 N-COUNT [usually plural, oft with poss] 奥秘;奥妙 Something's
secrets are the things about it which have never been fully explained.
奥秘;奥妙 6 PHRASE 秘密地;暗地里 If you do something
in secret, you do it without anyone else knowing.
秘密地;暗地里 SYN secretly, surreptitiously, slyly, behind closed doors
7 PHRASE 保守秘密 If you say that someone can
keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them.
保守秘密 8 PHRASE 不隐瞒;开诚布公 If you
make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
不隐瞒;开诚布公 Quotations
They have a skeleton in their closet William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where William Congreve Love for Love For secrets are edged tools,
And must be kept from children and from fools John Dryden Sir Martin Mar-All Thesaurus | secret Also look up: |
ADJ. | hidden, private, unknown; (ant.) known 1 |
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