新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

privateIELTS重点词汇

英 [ˈpraɪvɪt]

[ADJ, NOUN]

词汇频率：

ADJ. 形容词

1. 私有的
Private industries and services are owned or controlled by an individual person or a commercial company, rather than by the state or an official organization.
反义词
public
双语例句
例：
a joint venture with private industry.
一个与私有企业合资的企业。
例：
They sent their children to private schools.
他们送孩子们上私立学校。
例：
Bupa runs private hospitals in Britain.
布帕在英国经营私立医院。
例：
Brazil says its constitution forbids the private ownership of energy assets.
巴西称其宪法禁止能源资产私有化。
2. 代表个人行事的
Private individuals are acting only for themselves, and are not representing any group, company, or organization.
双语例句
例：
Private individuals with money to lend are more difficult to find than traditional lenders.
有钱借的个人比传统的放贷者更难找。
例：
The king was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors.
国王以私人身份出访，以便能祭拜其祖坟。
3. （财物）私人的
Your private things belong only to you, or may only be used by you.
双语例句
例：
They want more state control over private property.
他们希望国家加强对私人财产的控制。
4. 不对外开放的
Private places or gatherings may be attended only by a particular group of people, rather than by the general public.
双语例句
例：
673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study.
673家不对外开放的高尔夫俱乐部参加了最近的研究。
例：
The door is marked 'Private'.
门上写着“闲人免进”。
5. （会晤或讨论等）私下的
Private meetings, discussions, and other activities involve only a small number of people, and very little information about them is given to other people.
双语例句
例：
Don't bug private conversations, and don't buy papers that reprint them.
不要窃听私人谈话，也不要买翻印这种谈话的报纸。
6. （生活）私人的
Your private life is that part of your life that is concerned with your personal relationships and activities, rather than with your work or business.
近义词
personal
双语例句
例：
I've always kept my private and professional life separate.
我一向将我的私生活和工作分开。
7. （想法或情感）私下的
Your private thoughts or feelings are ones that you do not talk about to other people.
双语例句
例：
We all felt as if we were intruding on his private grief.
我们都觉得似乎触及了他内心的伤痛。
8. （地方）无他人打扰的
If you describe a place as private, or as somewhere where you can be private, you mean that it is a quiet place and you can be alone there without being disturbed.
双语例句
例：
It was the only reasonably private place they could find.
这是他们能找到的唯一一个还算僻静的地方。
9. 孤僻的
If you describe someone as a private person, you mean that they are very quiet by nature and do not reveal their thoughts and feelings to other people.
双语例句
例：
Gould was an intensely private individual.
古尔德曾是个相当孤僻的人。

NOUN. 名词

privates
1. [C 可数名词] 列兵
A private is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
双语例句
例：
He was a private in the US Army.
他是美国陆军中的一名列兵。

PHRASE. 习语

in private
1. 私下地
If you do something in private, you do it without other people being present, often because it is something that you want to keep secret.
双语例句
例：
Some of what we're talking about might better be discussed in private.
我们正在谈论的有些事也许私下讨论更好。