英语词汇“secret”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	secret
释义	se·cret I. \ˈsēkrə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ adjective (sometimes -er/-est) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin secretus, past participle of secernere to separate, distinguish, from sed-, se- apart (from sed, se without) + cernere to sift — more at idiot, certain 1. a. : kept from knowledge or view : concealed, hidden < advised him, against his own judgment, to keep his mission secret for a time — W.C.Ford > < the baronage had plunged almost to a man into secret conspiracies — J.R.Green > b. : marked by the habit of discretion or faithful concealment : loyal to a confidence : trustworthy in preserving secrecy : confidential, closemouthed, reticent c. : working with hidden aims or methods : undercover < a secret agent > d. : unacknowledged, unavowed, undeclared < a secret enemy > < a secret bride > 2. : remote from human frequentation or notice : retired, secluded < secret harbors — R.W.Hatch > 3. : known or felt inwardly without avowal < secret alarm > < secret exultation > : inmost < his secret soul > 4. a. : revealed only to the initiated : esoteric, mystic < the secret learning of the cabalists > b. : lying beyond ordinary comprehension : relating to or dealing with mysteries or occult matters : abstruse, recondite < you secret, black, and midnight hags — Shakespeare > 5. : done or undertaken with evident purpose of concealment < we must stand together … in secret alliance — Jack London > 6. : genital < secret parts > 7. : constructed so as to elude observation or detection < a secret panel > < a secret passage > or to conceal means or mechanics < secret nailing > < a secret dovetail > 8. : invisible, unseen 9. : classified below top secret but above confidential in a scale rating the value of information to a nation's security — compare classification 1f Synonyms: convert, clandestine, stealthy, surreptitious, furtive, underhand, underhanded: secret is a general term applicable to anything hidden, concealed, known, or known about by a limited few. < seized a lamp … and hurried towards the secret passage — Horace Walpole > convert is the antonym of overt or open; it stresses the fact of being concealed or veiled < some form of coercion, overt or covert — John Dewey > < the meaning of the covert addresses of a villain — W.M.Thackeray > clandestine refers to a situation obtaining, a practice adhered to, a thing made or used in wary or timorous secrecy, often against usage, sanction, or authority < she proposed a clandestine marriage, but he swore that when afterwards detected, it would cause his dismissal — Anthony Trollope > < hunted by the gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre — Time > stealthy may suggest slow, wary, sly avoidance of being observed as one proceeds in doing something evil, sinister, or reprehensible < a valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages — E.A.Poe > < comparable to … the suffocation of the York princes in the Tower. I'll admit the setting is consonant with that sort of stealthy, romantic crime — W.H.Wright > surreptitious refers to actions done, emotions cherished, things held or enjoyed secretly, often with opportune cleverness, against usage or authority < enjoying a surreptitious cigarette — P.G.Wodehouse > < over the paling of the garden we might obtain an oblique and surreptitious view — Henry James †1916 > furtive implies sly, wary, slinking caution to escape being perceived, recognized, or apprehended < asked the man, in a furtive frightened way — Charles Dickens > < furtive shortcuts across the fields of persons who might easily have bawled at me if they had caught sight of me — Siegfried Sassoon > underhand and underhanded stress dishonest deception rather than merely the fact of secrecy in itself < whatever scrape he may have been in, I'll warrant there was nothing mean or underhanded in his share of it … he hasn't a tricky or a dishonest bone in his body — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French secret, from Latin secretum, from neuter of secretus, past participle of secernere to separate, distinguish — more at secret I 1. a. : something kept hidden : an unexplained or inscrutable process or fact (as an operation of God or of nature) : mystery < an intimation of the secret of mysticism — Havelock Ellis > b. : something kept from the knowledge of others, concealed as one's private knowledge, or shared only confidentially with a few persons : information entrusted to one in confidence < a man who knew the secrets of one's innermost soul — H.J.Laski > — see trade secret c. : a method, formula, or process used in an art or a manufacturing operation and divulged only to those of one's own company or craft < secrets long cherished by monkish wine makers > d. secrets plural : the practices or knowledge making up the shared discipline or culture of an esoteric society < the secrets of the ancient Essenes > 2. [Medieval Latin secreta, from Latin, feminine of secretus, past participle of secernere] : a prayer said in a low or inaudible voice by the celebrant just before the preface in the mass 3. : something taken to be a specific or key to some desired end < called discreet and steady use of whiskey the secret of his living to the age of a hundred > 4. secrets plural : part 1d(3) 5. : a coat of mail worn concealed under one's clothing • - in secret III. adverb Etymology: secret (I) archaic : secretly IV. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: secret (I) obsolete : secrete II
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