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- : secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.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.
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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 .