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private,personal,one's own man,personal friends or relatives ;
[例句] 673家私人高尔夫俱乐部参与了最近的研究。 673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study.
[例句] 我的私人生活不得不让位于事业。 My personal life has had to take second place to my career.
smuggle,contraband,[电影]Contraband;
[例句] 两国士兵都用毒品走私贩的贿赂来贴补收入。 Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters.
[例句] 警方说他们怀疑索布拉还有一些走私毒品的同伙. Police said they suspected that Sobhraj had accomplices who are drug smugglers.
in private,in secret,privately,under the rose ;
[例句] 他把我叫到他的办公室私下谈了谈。 He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk.
[例句] 可否私下跟您谈谈,牧师。 Could I speak to you in private a moment, padre.
conceal,hide,secret,one's secrets,a nigger in the woodpile ;
[例句] 该报违反了保护隐私的行为准则。 The newspaper breached the code of conduct on privacy.
[例句] 他的酒店至少应该提供一点隐私保护。 The least his hotel could do is provide a little privacy.
privacy,private affairs,personal affairs ;
[例句] 很明显,她想谈些私事。 It was clear that she wanted to discuss some private matter.
[例句] 他老是为私事来麻烦我. He always troubles me about his private affairs.
privately,secretly,without permission ;
[例句] 本阅览室参考书不得私自携出. No reference books are to be taken out of the reading room without permission.
[例句] 他们雇了一些彪形大汉,将附近私自占点的商贩都赶走了。 They had employed heavies to evict shop squatters from neighbouring sites.
private [selfish] interests,personal gain,expedience,expediency,self-interest ;
[例句] 他们中的许多人置一己私利于集体利益之上。 Many of them placed self-interest before the common good.
[例句] 他做事完全出于私利。 He is motivated entirely by self-interest.
(小声说) whisper,(私下说的话) confidence,[电影]Careful, He Might Hear You;
[例句] 他编辑了《私语》这本文学杂志。 He edits the literary journal, Murmur.
[例句] 不时听得人群中有喁喁私语的声音. There was some little buzz of conversation going on among the people.
have secret communication with,illicit intercourse,adultery,fornication,bawdry ;
[例句] 他和某个姑娘私通. He had already contracted a liaison with some girl.
[例句] 我想知道他私通的内情. I want the dope on his criminal connections.
selfless,disinterested,unselfish,self-forgetful,selflessness ;
[例句] 杰弗里爵士对首相并无私人恩怨。 Sir Geoffrey had no personal animosity towards the Prime Minister.
[例句] 说到底,很少有人能这样无私。 Few people, when it comes down to it, are so selfless.
privately take possession of,misappropriation,pocket ;
[例句] 他把钱私吞了,存进了自己的银行帐户里. He kept the money for himself and paid it into his own bank.
[例句] 私吞集体财产终究会得到法律的制裁! He who appropriates collective goods will be punished by the law!
illegitimate child,bastard,child born out of wedlock,love [natural] child,bastardy ;
[例句] 埃里克有个不为人知的私生子。 Eric has a secret love child.
[例句] 他从不介意自己是私生子. He was never concerned about being born a bastard.
selfish,self-centred,self-seeking ;
[例句] 内阁大臣们正在自私地追逐他们自己的既得利益。 Cabinet Ministers are selfishly pursuing their own vested interests.
[例句] 我觉得我一直非常自私。总是只关心自己。 I think I've been very selfish. I've been mainly concerned with myself.
elopement,elope,run away ;
[例句] 我和他一直盘算着一起私奔。 He and I were always planning to run away together.
[例句] 我和女友琳恩私奔了。 My girlfriend Lynn and I eloped.
garderobe,by-room,den,sanctum ;
[例句] 规友私室,赞友公堂. Admonish your friend in secret , commend him in public.
[例句] 他与顾问们在私室里密谈. He closeted himself with his councilors.
illegally transport (arms, etc.),smuggle ;
[例句] 他在汽车里藏了一百只金表,并私运入境. He hid a hundred gold watches in his car and smuggled them into the country.
[例句] 私运毒品入英国是严重罪行. It is a serious crime to smuggle drugs into Britain.
misbeget,by the left hand,illegitimacy ;
[例句] 历史记载了不少私生龙子龙孙的大名,却不能告诉我们小麦的起源. History records the name of royal bastard but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.
[例句] 她是他的私生女. She is his unlawful daughter.
furtive,in private,in secret,backroom ;
[例句] 在这一问题上,她公开的立场比她私下的态度要强硬得多. Her public stance was much tougher than her private feelings on the subject.
[例句] 他私下的见解和公开的谈话相矛盾. His private opinions were incongruous with his public statements.
hooch,hootch ;
[例句] 他做过买卖私酒的生意. He trafficked in illicit liquor.
[例句] 有很多这样的暴发户都是大私酒贩子, 你要知道. ” A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know. "
intimate,personal,[计] private,privy ;
[例句] 离开这儿以前,我得把一些私人的事情安排妥当. I have to settle my affairs before leaving here.
[例句] 谈话转到了更私人的话题. The conversation veered off into more personal matters.