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- not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others秘密的：
how did you guess I'd got a secret plan?
你怎么猜到我有个秘密计划？
the resupply effort was probably kept secret from Congress.
再补给行动可能是对国会保密的。
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- attrib. not meant to be known as such by others秘密的, 不想让人知道的：
a secret drinker.
秘密酒徒。
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- fond of or good at keeping things about oneself unknown善于掩饰自己的：
he can be the most secret man.
他可能是最会掩饰自己的人。
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- something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others秘密, 机密：
a state secret
国家机密
at first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife.
起初我竭力不让我妻子知道此事。
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- something that is not properly understood; a mystery令人不解的事; 神秘; 谜：
I'm not trying to explain the secrets of the universe in this book.
在本书中我并不试图解释宇宙的奥秘。
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- a valid but not commonly known or recognized method of achieving or maintaining something秘诀; 诀窍：
the secret of a happy marriage is compromise.
幸福婚姻的秘诀是妥协。
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- a prayer said by the priest in a low voice after the offertory in a Roman Catholic Mass（罗马天主教弥撒捐献仪式后牧师的）默祷。
短语
be in (on) the secret
- be among the small number of people who know something知道内情。
in secret
- without others knowing暗地里, 秘密地。
make no secret of something
- make something perfectly clear不隐瞒某事。
派生词
secretly
adverb词源
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin secretus (adjective) 'separate, set apart', from the verb secernere, from se- 'apart' + cernere 'sift'.