in private
私下地,在不公開的場合
Pri·vate n.
1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.]
2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.]
Nor must I be unmindful of my private. --B. Jonson.
3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] “Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private.”
4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic]
What have kings, that privates have not too? --Shak.
5. Mil. A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
6. pl. The private parts; the genitals.
In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.
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in private
adv : kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it
was discussed privately between the two men";
"privately, she thought differently"; "some member of
his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was
questioned in private" [syn: privately, in camera]
[ant: publicly]