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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His conclusion was that one of two things must be the explanation either that this was a begging impostor, or that the prince, if prince he were, was simply a fool, without the slightest ambition; for a sensible prince with any ambition would certainly not wait about in ante-rooms with servants, and talk of his own private affairs like this.
-- Sokolo-vitch owes all the happiness he has had in the service and in his private life to me, and me alone, but ... here we are.'
-- He and the general ex-changed glances, making a private arrangement, thereby, to leave the house together.
-- Two years ago, on Easter Eve, His Excellency Nil Alexeyovitch, whose subordinate I was then, wished to hear what I had to say, and sent a message by Peter Zakkaritch to ask me to go to his private room.
-- 'However that may be, I have private infor-mation which convinces me that Mr. Burdovsky, though doubtless aware of the date of his birth, knew nothing at all about Pavlicheff's sojourn abroad.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particualrly painful to wretched mortals.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Though, I understand," he said turning to Mrs. Hall, "that this room is really to be mine for my own private use."
-- Their business there was of a private nature, and had something to do with the specific gravity of their beer.
-- "Since when did you learn to pry into an investigator's private memoranda," said the Voice; and two chins struck the table simultaneously, and two sets of teeth rattled.
-- "Since when did you learn to invade the private rooms of a man in misfortune?"
-- From private sources."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years young-er he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal.
-- Petersen Sahib had noticed him, and given him money, so he felt as a private soldier would feel if he had been called out of the ranks and praised by his commander-in-chief.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he stops; the private path by which we are to journey is, doubtless, at hand.'
-- He was seen to reenter the works during the first watches of the night, and imme-diately after a private conference with the commandant, to leave them again.
-- His first measures were very evidently taken to secure his new captive; nor did he even bestow a second glance at the motionless forms in the center of the cavern, until he had completely cut off every hope of retreat through the private outlet he had himself used.
-- Whatever might have been the private opinion of Un-cas of their respective abilities in this particular, his grave countenance manifested no opinion of his superiority.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had little private jokes of their own which, unintelligible to the outsider, amused them enormously.
-- I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
-- While I dressed for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.
-- I never heard her speak, but it may be that in private she had a copious conversation.
-- Before he entered upon his new duties he wished to take a holiday, and, having no private means, he went as surgeon on a tramp steamer to the Levant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Would you care a ha'penny for the Lord Chancellor if you know'd him in private and without his wig? certainly not.'
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