confidential是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 秘(机) 密的； 表示信任的； 担任机密工作的，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：
-- No doubt she told him her opinion of it, when, another blind-man being in office, they were so very confidential together, behind the curtains.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
-- But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were princi-pally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
-- The people rudely pic-tured as drinking in the wine-shops, croaked over their scanty measures of thin wine and beer, and were glower-ingly confidential together.
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：
-- They were telling each other, with a confidential inter-change of ideas, where they had been during the day.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he was not confidential with her, if at table he forgot her in long reflections, neither was he unkind or impatient, and he depended on her housekeeping, her warming of his old- fashioned nightgown.
-- Martin found himself becoming confidential about "variables," and Tredgold proclaimed that he had not wanted to take up the ancestral factory, but to specialize in astronomy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'With nobodypresent, but our dear and confidential friend Mr. Wickfield, Icannot consent to be put down.
-- We'd gone on, so far, in a mixture of confidential jest and earnest,that had long grown naturally out of our familiar relations, begunas mere children.
-- Copperfield, my daughter Dora, andmy daughter Dora's confidential friend!'
-- No; the confidential friend, MissMurdstone!
-- But as I had none but passing thoughts for any subject save Dora, Iglanced at her, directly afterwards, and was thinking that I saw, inher prettily pet- tish manner, that she was not very much inclinedto be particularly confidential to her companion and protector,when a bell rang, which Mr. Spenlow said was the first dinner-bell,and so carried me off to dress.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To talk would be only to irritate. She wrote to her, there-fore, kindly, but decisively, to beg that she would not, at present, come to Hartfield; acknowledging it to be her con-viction, that all farther confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided; and hoping, that if a few days were allowed to pass before they met again, except in the com-pany of others she objected only to a tete-a-tete they might be able to act as if they had forgotten the conversa-tion of yesterday. Harriet submitted, and approved, and was grateful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day she was led by an accident into an oddly confidential dialogue with Gabriel about her difficulty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know, Pip," said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, "you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time.
-- What I have to do as the confidential agent of another, I do.
-- Through his way of saying this, and much more to similar purpose, he placed himself on confidential terms with me in an admirable manner; and I may state at once that he was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him.
-- We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As this was his usual hour for having a little confidential chat with Mrs. Sparsit, and as he had already caught her eye and seen that she was going to ask him something, he made a pretence of arranging the rulers, inkstands, and so forth, while that lady went on with her tea, glancing through the open window, down into the street.
-- He stood looking after her, as she ascended the steps, and passed into the shadow of the door; then put his hand upon her brother's shoulder again, and invited him with a confidential nod to a walk in the garden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's extraordinary to me if you'll excuse my freedom in saying so that you don't go straight to London,' said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser.
-- He entrusted the nondescript with a confidential message to her, importing that the visitor who had waited on her father last night, begged the favour of a few words with her at her uncle's lodging; he obtained from the same source full directions to the house, which was very near; dismissed the nondescript gratified with half-a-crown; and having hastily refreshed himself at the coffee-shop, repaired with all speed to the clarionet-player's dwelling.
-- Again, there was the subject of his relations with his mother, which were now upon an equable and peaceful but never confidential footing, and whom he saw several times a week.
-- 'I won't say what it was worth,' answered Mr Meagles: 'but of course I remember our being very pleasant and confidential together.'
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