单词 | intimacy |
释义 | in·ti·ma·cy 1. a. < the furnishings suggested at least some intimacy with the outside world — C.L.Jones > < in the city you are more free from unwelcome intimacy — M.R.Cohen > b. < a long intimacy with the governor of the state > < long continued intimacy with the fields and meadows about him — Encyc. Americana > < a common danger had made of these two enemies friends … and now that the danger had passed their intimacy was done — Jack McLaren > c. < his intimacy with the history of the middle ages > d. < would call for some effort to disentangle a relationship of things marked by such intimacy > 2. < an intimacy of observation which few scientists can equal — H.S.Canby > 3. a. < resented the pawing intimacies of the man who was driving the car — Erle Stanley Gardner > specifically < denied charges of having an affair with a married woman … though she said intimacy between them had taken place about 25 times — New York Enquirer > or an instance of it < indications that she had recently experienced an intimacy — R.O.Lawson & S.D.Greene > b. < became embarrassingly familiar with the intimacies of fame — Green Peyton > 4. < music marked by an intimacy of expression > 5. < the almost cloistered intimacy of much of the route — American Guide Series: Vermont > 6. < only one other man possessing this curious intimacy with wild things — Edison Marshall > |
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