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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as breakfast was over they all went into Lord Glenarvan's private cabin and seated themselves round a table covered with charts and plans, to talk over the matter fully.
-- John Mangles went to find Glenarvan, and had a private talk with him about their situation, telling him frankly the true state of affairs, stating the case with all the coolness of a sailor prepared for anything and everything and he wound up by saying he might, perhaps, be obliged to cast the yacht on shore.
-- But he did not breathe a word of his private misgivings, and contented himself with watching the neighborhood of the river; nothing disturbed the repose of those tranquil glades, and after a short night the sun reappeared on the horizon.
-- Did they know of the existence of the prisoners, or was it some private enterprise that led to the undertaking?
-- "Did you wish for a private interview?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then let me have the private ones.'
-- Now, a private pen or ink-bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the combination of the two must be quite rare.
-- It was in the private sitting-room to which we afterwards repaired that Holmes asked Baskerville what were his intentions.
-- He had come to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study, the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed, and that we are to dine at Merripit House next Friday as a sign of it.
-- It may have been that Barrymore had some private signal which we had neglected to give, or the fellow may have had some other reason for thinking that all was not well, but I could read his fears upon his wicked face.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All his wishes centered in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.
-- He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the unsatiable appetite of fifteen.
-- The private balls at the park then began; and parties on the water were made and accomplished as often as a showery October would allow.
-- Their favour increased; they could not be spared; Sir John would not hear of their going; and in spite of their numerous and long arranged engagements in Exeter, in spite of the absolute necessity of returning to fulfill them immediately, which was in full force at the end of every week, they were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the park, and to assist in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary share of private balls and large dinners to proclaim its importance.
-- The party, like other musical parties, comprehended a great many people who had real taste for the performance, and a great many more who had none at all; and the performers themselves were, as usual, in their own estimation, and that of their immediate friends, the first private performers in England.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George, Jr., flourished about as if he were a man entirely and must needs have private matters.
-- Really one of the best private theatricals I ever attended.
-- "I think he is," said the latter, consulting his private registry list.
-- It was a famous drugstore, and contained one of the first private telephone booths ever erected.
-- "Just attending to a little private matter," he answered, his mind working like a key-board of a telephone station.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I'd ben a-running' a little temperance revival thar 'bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I TELL you, and takin' as much as five or six dollars a night ten cents a head, children and niggers free and business a-growin' all the time, when somehow or another a little re-port got around last night that I had a way of puttin' in my time with a private jug on the sly.
-- Then the king he hunched the duke private I see him do it and then he looked around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then him and the duke, with a hand across each other's shoul- der, and t'other hand to their eyes, walked slow and solemn over there, everybody dropping back to give them room, and all the talk and noise stopping, people saying 'Sh!'
-- Well, blamed if the king didn't bill the house and the nig-gers and all the property for auction straight off sale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private be-forehand if they wanted to.
-- CHAPTER THE LAST THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?
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