| 单词 | private |
| 释义 | private (once / 39 pages) 1adj 2n Something private is something you don't want to share; it's for your eyes only. Your diary entries and your bank account balance might both be kept private. As a noun, the lowest enlisted rank is called private. You may enlist as a private but have plans to retire from the Army as a four-star general! Sometimes the adjective private is used as the opposite of public. If you own your own island, it's private property. Alcatraz Island, however, is public property and the site of a museum preserving its past life as a famous prison — former home to Al Capone. WORD FAMILYprivate: privacy, privately, privateness, privates, privatise, privatize, semiprivate+/privacy: privacies/privatise: privatisation/privatization: privatizations/privatize: privatization, privatized, privatizes, privatizing USAGE EXAMPLESI am a clinical social worker in private practice, and I deal with a different client every hour. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “Expect the unexpected,” said Sabine Kaiser, founder of SKadvisory, which advises family offices on venture capital and private equity. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Trump returned to New York Monday after spending the holidays at his private club in South Florida. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy a private place private discussions private lessons a private club a private secretary private property the former President is now a private citizen public figures struggle to maintain a private life Syn|Ant esoteric confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle personalconcerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobbybefitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequesteredproviding privacy or seclusion closeconfined to specific persons closed-doornot open to the public confidential, secret(of information) given in confidence or in secret confidentialentrusted with private information and the confidence of another insularsuggestive of the isolated life of an island nonpublicnot invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. backstage, offstageconcealed from public view or attention one-on-onedirectly between two individuals privy, secluded, secrethidden from general view or use semiprivateconfined to a small number of hospital patients head-to-head, tete-a-teteinvolving two persons; intimately private toffee-nosedsnobbish; pretentiously superior public not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole exotericsuitable for the general public open, overtopen and observable; not secret or hidden in the public eyeof great interest to the public nationalowned or maintained for the public by the national government openopen to or in view of all semipublichaving some of the features of public institution state-supportedsupported and operated by the government of a state unexclusive, unrestrictedaccessible to all 2adj concerning one person exclusively each room has a private bath Syn individual personal concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality 3adj concerning things deeply private and personal private correspondence private family matters Syn personal concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality 4adj not expressed 2secret (or private) thoughts Syn secret inward relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts n an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value Syn|Hyper buck private, common soldier enlisted man a male enlisted person in the armed forces |
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