資料來源 : pyDict
私下地,在不公開的場合
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Private \Pri"vate\, n.
1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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.'' --Shak.
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. --Macaulay.
6. pl. The private parts; the genitals.
{In private}, secretly; not openly or publicly.
資料來源 : WordNet®
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}]