| 单词 | secret |
| 释义 | secret (once / 39 pages) 1adjn 2adjn A secret is something you don’t want everybody to know, like your secret crush on the bus driver. A secret can also be a mystery known to only a few — the secret of the lost pyramid. There might be a secret passageway in your basement that only you know about. You could have a secret passion for Japanese anime comics and share that secret with only your closest friends. If you're "in on a secret" — plans for a surprise birthday party, for instance — that means you're in the inner circle of people in the know. Everybody has to keep the secret, or the party won't be a surprise. WORD FAMILYsecret: secrecy, secretest, secretly, secrets+/secrecy: secrecies USAGE EXAMPLESAnd to her secret distress, Ruby is in the 25th percentile for height and the 80th for weight. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Or trade secrets, and valuable inside information about mergers or drug trials. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Dahlin’s first project was a report denouncing the existence of an illegal nationwide network of secret detention facilities called “black jails”. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj not openly made known a secret marriage a secret bride Syn unavowed unacknowledged not recognized or admitted 2adj not open or public; kept private or not revealed a secret formula secret ingredients secret talks Syn concealed hidden on any grounds for any motive 3adj hidden from general view or use a secret garden Syn privy, secluded private confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy 4adj conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods secret missions a secret agent secret sales of arms Syn clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed 5adj designed to elude detection a secret passage the secret compartment in the desk Syn hidden concealed hidden on any grounds for any motive 6adj indulging only covertly a secret alcoholic Syn covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed 7adj the next to highest level of official classification for documents Syn classified official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation 8n something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) 2the combination to the safe was a secret he tried to keep his drinking a secret Hypo|Hyper confidence a secret that is confided or entrusted to another open secretsomething that is supposed to be secret but is generally known trade secreta secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition info, information a message received and understood 1adj (of information) given in confidence or in secret their secret communications Syn confidential private confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy 2adj communicated covertly their secret signal was a wink secret messages Syn covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed 3adj not expressed Syn private inward relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts 4adj having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding the secret learning of the ancients Syn mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic esoteric confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle 5n information known only to a special group the secret of Cajun cooking Syn|Hypo|Hyper arcanum esoterica secrets known only to an initiated minority cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalahan esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret countersign, parole, password, watchword, worda secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group info, information a message received and understood 6n something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained it remains one of nature's secrets Syn|Hyper closed book, enigma, mystery perplexity trouble or confusion resulting from complexity |
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