| 单词 | private |
| 释义 | private (praɪvɪt ) Word forms: privates 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Private industries and services are owned or controlled by an individual person or a commercial company, rather than by the state or an official organization. [business] ...a joint venture with private industry. Bupa runs private hospitals in Britain. Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets. Synonyms: nonpublic, independent, commercial, privatized privately adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 No other European country had so few privately owned businesses. She was privately educated at schools in Ireland and Paris. Synonyms: secretly, personally, deep down, inwardly Synonyms: in private, alone, discreetly, behind closed doors 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Private individuals are acting only for themselves, and are not representing any group, company, or organization. ...the law's insistence that private citizens are not permitted to have weapons. The King was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors. The family tried to bring a private prosecution against him for assault. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Your private things belong only to you, or may only be used by you. The landowners have had to sell their private aircraft. They want more State control over private property. There are 76 individually furnished bedrooms, all with private bathrooms. He later travelled with the Prince of Wales as his private secretary. 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Private places or gatherings may be attended only by a particular group of people, rather than by the general public. 673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study. The door is marked 'Private'. He was buried in a private ceremony in Liverpool. 5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Private meetings, discussions, and other activities involve only a small number of people, and very little information about them is given to other people. Don't bug private conversations, and don't buy papers that reprint them. privately adverb [oft ADVERB after verb] B2 Few senior figures have issued any public statements but privately the resignation's been welcomed. I had not talked to Winnette privately for weeks. Synonyms: secretly, personally, deep down, inwardly Synonyms: in private, alone, discreetly, behind closed doors 6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1 Your private life is that part of your life that is concerned with your personal relationships and activities, rather than with your work or business. I've always kept my private and professional life separate. My private affairs are no one's business but my own. Synonyms: personal, individual, secret, hidden 7. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Your private thoughts or feelings are ones that you do not talk about to other people. We all felt as if we were intruding on his private grief. It's just that it's something very private, and I simply can't talk about it. privately adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 Privately, she worries about whether she's really good enough. He had privately resolved he would buy her the dress. Synonyms: secretly, personally, deep down, inwardly Synonyms: in private, alone, discreetly, behind closed doors 8. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 You can use private to describe situations or activities that are understood only by the people involved in them, and not by anyone else. Chinese waiters stood in a cluster, sharing a private joke. As many as 40 per cent of twins have a private language that excludes the rest of the family. 9. adjective B1+ If you describe a place as private, or as somewhere where you can be private, you mean that it is a quiet place and you can be alone there without being disturbed. It was the only reasonably private place they could find. ...a very attractive country house set within a uniquely beautiful and private position. We were alone, completely private, with not even Angela present. Synonyms: secluded, secret, separate, isolated 10. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ If you describe someone as a private person, you mean that they are very quiet by nature and do not reveal their thoughts and feelings to other people. She has always been a rather private person. Gould was an intensely private individual. Synonyms: solitary, reserved, retiring, withdrawn 11. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 You can use private to describe lessons that are not part of ordinary school activity, and which are given by a teacher to an individual pupil or a small group, usually in return for payment. Martial arts: Private lessons: £8 per hour. ...Donald Tovey, who took her as his private pupil for the piano. 12. countable noun & title noun A private is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines. One gunner in each battery was an NCO and the rest were privates. ...Private Martin Ferguson. Synonyms: enlisted man [US, old-fashioned], tommy [British, old-fashioned], private soldier, Tommy Atkins [British, old-fashioned] 13. plural noun [usually poss NOUN] Your privates are your genitals. [informal] You should wash your feet and your privates every day. 14. See also privately 15. in private phrase B2 If you do something in private, you do it without other people being present, often because it is something that you want to keep secret. Some of what we're talking about might better be discussed in private. Synonyms: in secret, privately, personally, behind closed doors Collocations: private access The owner has private access to the sea and there's a small pier, where you can moor a boat. Times, Sunday Times You'll also have private access to the greensward and beach. Times, Sunday Times The inspectors also found patients who were prevented from meeting their relatives alone and did not have private access to a mobile phone. Times, Sunday Times Guarding a 13th-century bridge to a moated island, this two-bedroom gatehouse offers private access to the castle ruins. Times, Sunday Times Private access roads on to the routes will be closed and restrictions are likely to be placed on certain vehicles. Times, Sunday Times Friends of the couple were told it was a private affair and were asked to avoid posting about the event on social media. Times, Sunday Times It will be a private affair with close friends and colleagues. Times,Sunday Times My journals were always a very private affair distributed to a mere 70 or so close friends and suitable figures of prominence in society, politics and the media. Times, Sunday Times Recovery has become largely a private affair, which we expect to be rapid and automatic, as if fixing ourselves were as easy as repairing a car or resetting a computer. Times, Sunday Times Should the spirit move you, you can take confession in here by prior arrangement — but it won't be a private affair, with 20,000 people passing through each day. Times, Sunday Times She commanded a private army of servants and bodyguards, enjoyed weekends on the family's two mega-yachts and travelled by private jet. Times, Sunday Times It took years to get the composition of this private army right. Times, Sunday Times No one would seriously suggest creating a private army to defend private property on land, but at sea the rules, and traditions, are somewhat different. Times, Sunday Times Or that he was being protected by a private army. The Sun The private army will be funded entirely by foreign companies through mining licences. Times, Sunday Times Set up for the trade, but friendly to the private buyer. Times, Sunday Times When these attempts failed, a private buyer stepped in, bidding for the pieces, then refusing to pay as a matter of national honour. Times, Sunday Times Although everyone agrees they are masterpieces, it's up to a private buyer to do the decent thing and snap them up for the nation. The Sun The info includes the price for different conditions, along with a dealer and private buyer price. The Sun Thus began a five-month search for a private buyer. Times, Sunday Times It seemed she had keys to some of the castle's private chambers. Times, Sunday Times This range had another kitchen, as well as private chambers within the round tower at the north-west corner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tower house was extended in the late 14th century to add additional private chambers and a prison. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When possible, rich hosts retired with their consorts to private chambers where the meal could be enjoyed in greater exclusivity and privacy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The broad main spiral stair led up to three further storeys of private chambers, before reaching a caphouse, a small rooftop chamber giving access to a parapet walk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But injectable nanoparticles that reveal private information about a patient “could be ripe for misinterpretations and rumors,” she says. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As well as the damages and legal costs, she was granted an injunction preventing unlawful accessing of her voicemail and publication of private information. Times, Sunday Times Never disclose private information about a company or post derogatory comments about colleagues. Times, Sunday Times He called for new law to allow private information to be spied on. Times, Sunday Times Dating back to at least 2005, they discovered the prices that other banks submitted - supposedly private information - enabling them to profit enormously. Times, Sunday Times There, he was due to be greeted by a crowd of 4,000 friends and supporters at a private party. Times, Sunday Times In his view, 'it would amount to censorship of his published content by a private party', he said last year. Times, Sunday Times The government hoped to buy it in the 1950s, but the private party would not sell. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The volcano was purchased by a private party in the 1930s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was a private party whose invites have gone astray. Times, Sunday Times Churches and other places of worship are also likely to be allowed to open for private prayer while garden centres could be permitted to reopen. Times,Sunday Times After he spoke, he prayed with the group and invited couples to join him in the church sanctuary for private prayer. Christianity Today Church buildings can still be open for private prayer, with good hygiene and self-distancing applied. Times,Sunday Times The practicalities of opening churches for private prayer are unworkable, however, and the bishops are right in this respect. Times,Sunday Times Yet originally the government's lockdown guidelines said that churches should remain open for private prayer. Times,Sunday Times The lesson, though, has to be learnt on this occasion that planning for public jails and encouraging the private prison sector to provide more cells are essential. Times, Sunday Times The private prison had inadequate patrols and prisoner movement, excessive false alarms, a lax culture, and inconsistencies in visitor screening procedures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The private prison industry has been accused of incarcerating people in mainly impoverished communities for minor crimes so as to use them for free labor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With a combined capacity of 3,763 prisoners in its three sub-complexes, it has been called the largest private prison in the world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The companies that run private prison establishments each have their own entry requirements and recruitment methods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They can either provide it on their own premises or link up with a nearby voluntary, state or private provider. Times, Sunday Times The courts should not be beholden to any private provider because the courts have to be independent of every interest. Times, Sunday Times Patients could raise concerns about a service being provided by a health trust, charity or private provider, whose contracts could be ended. Times, Sunday Times Any private provider could be required to reinvest 50% of any profits in the school, for instance. Times, Sunday Times The current disastrous private provider of out-of-hours cover — which had provoked local concern by using nurses to give medical cover — had its contract renewed. Times, Sunday Times The house remains in the family to this day as a private residence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The groups meet regularly, in a comfortable and non-threatening environment—usually a private residence or small commercial kitchen—and do away with the typical guest-host hierarchy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This case has been cited in virtually all subsequent cases relating to private residence relief. Times, Sunday Times As luck would have it, the house was being gutted prior to being restored from offices to a private residence. Times, Sunday Times More recently, they have had other uses, including as a private residence, a clothes shop and a chemist. Times, Sunday Times But they should only be used when all parties have given consent, otherwise it could be seen as invading someone's private space. The Sun She seems to invade the house and construct a barricade of steam around the bathroom, the only private space. The Times Literary Supplement She also yearned for private space, where she could escape the bustle and intrigue of politics. Times, Sunday Times Branches will have reduced lighting and background noise, digital screens will be removed, and there will be additional private space. Times, Sunday Times They will adore building outdoor camps, creating their own secret, private space. Times, Sunday Times It may well be worth paying for your son to go to a good prep school or a private tutor. Times, Sunday Times They pick up the telephone and call a private tutor. Times, Sunday Times It might also be worth considering a private tutor. Times, Sunday Times I started working as a private tutor seven years ago. Times, Sunday Times Not only do you not have a moral duty to squeal on this private tutor, you have a moral duty not to squeal on her. Times, Sunday Times Has a 25m pool, one of the largest on a private yacht. Times,Sunday Times They have all been oak-panelled to within an inch of their life, like 'cabins on a private yacht'. Times, Sunday Times Richer travellers pay €2,000 a head to travel in a private yacht. Times, Sunday Times To help to pay for his tuition he worked as a boat captain on a private yacht. Times, Sunday Times It has original carvings, beams, balconies, wells, even original kitchen sinks - plus a non-original, but rather lovely, spa and private yacht. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 私密的 Japanese: 個人的な |
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