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closed-door

/klohzd-dawr, -dohr/US // ˈkloʊzdˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr //

闭门会议,闭门,闭门造车,封闭式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.

Examples

  • A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.

  • He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.

  • Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.

  • The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.

  • I wish I could be writing to you under better circumstances, but unfortunately those avenues have closed up.

  • Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

  • Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."