private是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 私人的， 个人的， 秘密的， 私下的n. 士兵， 列兵，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. South-cott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
-- While he trotted back with the message he was to deliver to the night watchman in his box at the door of Tellson's Bank, by Temple Bar, who was to deliver it to greater au-thorities within, the shadows of the night took such shapes to him as arose out of the message, and took such shapes to the mare as arose out of HER private topics of uneasiness.
-- The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private lodging in Hang-ing-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
-- Yet, Monseigneur had slowly found that vulgar embar-rassments crept into his affairs, both private and public; and he had, as to both classes of affairs, allied himself per-force with a Farmer-General.
-- This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now you shall see how well we agree together"; and while she combed little Gerda's hair, the child forgot her foster-brother Kay more and more, for the old woman understood magic; but she was no evil being, she only prac-tised witchcraft a little for her own private amusement, and now she wanted very much to keep little Gerda.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On reaching the offices of the board, Stepan Arkadyevitch, escorted by a deferential porter with a portfolio, went into his little private room, put on his uniform, and went into the boardroom.
-- When the case had been read through, Stepan Arkadyevitch got up and stretched, and by way of tribute to the liberalism of the times took out a cigarette in the boardroom and went into his private room.
-- "If you prefer it, your excellency, a private room will be free directly; Prince Golistin with a lady.
-- With what he had in his soul, he felt sore and uncomfortable in the restaurant, in the midst of private rooms where men were dining with ladies, in all this fuss and bustle; the surroundings of bronzes, looking glasses, gas, and waiters--all of it was offensive to him.
-- Then there was private business of his own, a visit from the doctor and the steward who managed his property.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carriage stopped before a modest-looking house, which, however, did not have the appearance of a private mansion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to specialize in bacteriology; he was going to discover enchanting new germs; Professor Gottlieb was going to recognize him as a genius, make him an assistant, predict for him--He halted in Gottlieb's private laboratory, a small, tidy apartment with racks of cotton- corked test-tubes on the bench, a place unimpressive and unmagical save for the constant- temperature bath with its tricky thermometer and electric bulbs.
-- With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the "aggies" use the North Side Tennis Courts), but in private life he was less decorous.
-- He was so absorbed in looking like a brilliant young surgeon that he was completely lost, and discovered himself in a wing filled with private suites.
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
-- He was received with acclaim in the private office of Hunziker, which was remarkably like a minor cathedral.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now may I ven-ture to address you, honoured sir, on my own account with a private question.
-- Econom-ic truth adds that the better private affairs are organised in society the more whole coats, so to say the firmer are its foundations and the better is the common welfare organised too.
-- excuse me I have forgotten your surname,' he bowed politely to Razumihin) 'insulted me by misrepresenting the idea I expressed to you in a private conversation, drinking coffee, that is, that marriage with a poor girl who has had experience of trouble is more advan-tageous from the conjugal point of view than with one who has lived in luxury, since it is more profitable for the moral character.
-- You wanted to avoid gratitude, I saw!And although I can-not, I confess, in principle sympathise with private charity, for it not only fails to eradicate the evil but even promotes it, yet I must admit that I saw your action with pleasure yes, yes, I like it.'
-- Could it be simply to conceal it from 560 Crime and Punishmentme, knowing that my convictions are opposed to yours and that I do not approve of private benevolence, which ef-fects no radical cure?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Myinterest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so dividedbetween pleasure and regret- pleasure in the achievement of a longdesign, regret in the separation from many companions- that I amin danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personalconfidences, and private emotions.
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