secretly
秘密地,悄悄地,暗地里,偷偷地
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Definitions
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- : done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
- : kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
- : faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
- : designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
- : secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
- : beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
- : bearing the classification secret.limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
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- : something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- : a mystery: the secrets of nature.
- : a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
- : a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
- : a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material.Compare classification.
- : Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
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Examples
The companies aren’t likely to reveal all the tricks and commercial secrets they used to make the vaccines, says Sanjay Mishra, a protein chemist and data scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Then there’s Jimin’s plaintive, cheery tenor, which always turns him into the cuddliest, secret-keeping member of your slumber party.
She starts keeping a lot of secrets from her mother, an academic secretary.
In college, I remember thinking if a celebrity like Diana can keep a secret like that, I can do it and no one will notice.
I wished Zelda would have been as vital and essential as Link throughout the story and that she would have revealed more secrets about herself, but that wasn’t to be for most of the game.
While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.
Britain refuses to listen, but has shocked the art world by secretly loaning one of the antiquities to Russia.
But secretly rooting for the good Israelis and wishing them success is one thing.
He proceeds to tease me, asking if our interview is “secretly a date?”
As other prisoners took advantage of the rehabilitation programs offered, Lane and Opperud secretly planned an escape.
He had not estimated that if Jean Baptiste sought his wife secretly, it must have been because he wished to avoid him.
Seeing that this would not be conceded, he commenced to persecute Christians openly and secretly.
It is said that the governor has money taken from the royal treasury secretly at night.
Who among us would fail to believe what we have, perhaps, secretly wished for in our heart of hearts?
Mrs. Armine was fatigued by the journey, and by the long day at Denderah, which had secretly depressed her.