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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was sodivided between pleasure and regret- pleasure in the achievementof a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personalconfidences and private emotions.
-- After that, he slouched over his horse in his usualmanner; and made no other reference to the subject except, half anhour afterwards, taking a piece of chalk from his pocket, andwriting up, inside the tilt of the cart, 'Clara Peggotty'- apparentlyas a private memorandum.
-- 'Because his brother was a littleeccentricthough he is not half so eccentric as a good many people- 196he didn't like to have him visible about his house, and sent himaway to some private asylum-place: though he had been left to hisparticular care by their deceased father, who thought him almost anatural.
-- And now, in theevening, Mr. Wickfield, Agnes, and I, went to have tea with him inhis private capacity.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Granted; for private enjoyment; and for private enjoyment keep them.
-- Mr. John Knightley was a tall, gentleman-like, and very clever man; rising in his profession, domestic, and respect-able in his private character; but with reserved manners which prevented his being generally pleasing; and capable of being sometimes out of humour.
-- She could tell nothing of Hartfield, in which Mrs. Weston had not a lively concern; and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little mat-ters on which the daily happiness of private life depends, was one of the first gratifications of each.
-- These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclu-sion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, be-sides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
-- The maltster being rather short of breath, Mr. Coggan, after absently scrutinising a coal which had fallen among the ashes, took up the narrative, with a private twirl of his eye: "Well, now, you'd hardly believe it, but that man our Miss Everdene's father was one of the ficklest husbands alive, after a while.
-- "I cannot allow any man to to criticise my private conduct!"
-- Supper being ended, Coggan began on his own private account, without reference to listeners: I've lost my love, and I care not,I've lost my love, and I care not; I shall soon have another That's better than t'other;I've lost my love, and I care not.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de l'Ambermesnil lent herself very good-naturedly to this manoeuvre, began her operations, and succeeded in obtaining a private interview; but the overtures that she made, with a view to securing him for herself, were received with embarrassment, not to say a repulse.
-- His position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured, fall at the shock.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 46 FrankensteinHis manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those two weeks, Scarlett never saw Ashley alone, never had a private word with him.
-- Not even at the terriblemoment of parting, when he stopped by Tara on his way to the train, did she have a private talk.
-- Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crammed with visitors who had come to be nearwounded relatives in the big Atlanta hospitals.
-- The editor, sensing the social drama ofthe letter, put it on the second page of the paper, in itself a startling innovation, as the first two pages of the paper werealways devoted to advertisements of slaves, mules, plows, coffins, houses for sale or rent, cures for private diseases,abortifacients and restoratives for lost manhood.
-- But when the news trickled back that Lee had issued orders that no private property in Pennsylvania should betouched, that looting would be punished by death and that the army would pay for every article it requisitioned then itneeded all the reverence the General had earned to save his popularity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- would be the time for me to rise and propose a private conference in the vestry.
-- Wopsle taking the bass, and asserting with a tremendously strong voice (in reply to the inquisitive bore who leads that piece of music in a most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody's private affairs) that he was the man with his white locks flowing, and that he was upon the whole the weakest pilgrim going.
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