| 单词 | secret session |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecret session h. Of a committee, conclave, etc.: Conducted with secrecy; that keeps its deliberations unknown to the public. Also secret session (originally U.S.), a meeting of a legislative or deliberative body, conducted in secret. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] > conducted in private sunderlyeOE quiet1488 strict1606 secret1667 in camera1899 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 795 The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat. View more context for this quotation 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 66 He early suggested to the King the expediency of appointing a secret committee of Roman Catholics. 1872 W. Bagehot Eng. Constit. (ed. 2) p. xlvii This objection might be easily avoided by requiring that the discussion upon treaties in Parliament like that discussion in the American Senate should be ‘in secret session’, and that no report should be published of it. 1916 H. H. Asquith in Hansard Commons 27 Nov. 37 I think it would be premature to consider this question till it has been decided whether a Secret Session should be held. 1940 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches (1946) 17 The reason why I asked the House to go into Secret Session was not because I had anything particularly secret or momentous to say. 1946 G. B. Shaw Geneva (ed. 2) 4 All threatening news was mentioned only in secret sessions of parliament, hidden under heavy penalties. < as lemmas |
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