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personal

/pur-suh-nl/US // ˈpɜr sə nl //UK // (ˈpɜːsənəl) //

个人,个人的,私人,私人的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
    • : relating to, directed to, or intended for a particular person: a personal favor; one's personal life; a letter marked “Personal.”
    • : intended for use by one person: a personal car.
    • : referring or directed to a particular person in a disparaging or offensive sense or manner, usually involving character, behavior, appearance, etc.: personal remarks.
    • : making personal remarks or attacks: to become personal in a dispute.
    • : done, carried out, held, etc., in person: a personal interview.
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of a person or self-conscious being: That is my personal belief.
    • : of the nature of an individual rational being.
    • : pertaining to the body, clothing, or appearance: personal cleanliness.
    • : provided for one's discretionary use: Employees are allowed 15 vacation days and two personal days.
    • : Grammar. noting person: In Latin portō “I carry,” -ō is a personal ending.of, relating to, or characteristic of the personal pronoun, as English I, we, you, he, she, it, and they.
    • : Law. of or relating to personal property: personal interests.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short news paragraph in a newspaper concerning a particular person, as one who is socially prominent, or a group of particular persons who are socially prominent.a brief, private notice in a newspaper or magazine, often addressed to a particular person, and typically bearing an abbreviated salutation and signature to preserve its confidentiality, usually printed in a special part of the classified advertising section.Also called personal ad .a similar notice, as in a newspaper or on a website, placed by a person seeking companionship, a spouse, etc.Usually personals. a column, page, or section, as of a newspaper, magazine, or website, featuring such notices or items.

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Examples

  • I explained in personal detail the demise I was experiencing.

  • The data above are consistent with previous surveys about location and personal data sharing among smartphone owners.

  • Seeing someone advocate for a brand or products that they’re using is an incredibly personal form of marketing.

  • Find the one thing that Israel doesn’t have an answer to, doesn’t know how to manage and can’t get rid of, and make it your own personal vanity project.

  • Several claim that they were only cited because an officer took personal offense to something they’d said — usually about police and sometimes just quietly to themselves.

  • The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.

  • And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”

  • Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.

  • Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.

  • It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.

  • The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.

  • Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.

  • The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.

  • One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.

  • He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.