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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he asked, 'how was it that you (idiot that you are),' he added to himself, 'were so very confidential a couple of hours after your first meeting with these people?
-- Nina Alexandrovna was very fond of him, and had grown quite confidential with him of late.
-- I don't know whether I ought to be confidential with you, prince; but, I assure you, you are the only decent fellow I have come across.
-- They were proud dam-sels, and were not always perfectly confidential even among themselves.
-- He was not drunk, but in a confidential and talkative mood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The fact is," began Mr. Marvel eagerly in a confidential undertone.
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：
-- 'To increase the horror of our capture, and to diminish the chances of our release!Go, generous young man,' Cora continued, lowering her eyes under the gaze of the Mohican, and perhaps, with an intuitive consciousness of her power; 'go to my father, as I have said, and be the most confidential of my messengers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without inquiring whether Salamanders were of necessity good confidential agents, or whether a fire-proof man was as a matter of course trustworthy, Frederick Trent threw himself into a chair, and, burying his head in his hands, endeavoured to fathom the motives which had led Quilp to insinuate himself into Richard Swiveller's confidence; for that the disclosure was of his seeking, and had not been spontaneously revealed by Dick, was sufficiently plain from Quilp's seeking his company and enticing him away.
-- The other was his clerk, assistant, housekeeper, secretary, confidential plotter, adviser, intriguer, and bill of cost increaser, Miss Brass a kind of amazon at common law, of whom it may be desirable to offer a brief description.
-- 'I am suspected and thrown aside, and Kit's the confidential agent, is he?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You industrious little fairy,' returned Flora, taking, in another cup of tea, another of the doses prescribed by her medical man, 'there's not the slightest hurry and it's better that we should begin by being confidential about our mutual friend too cold a word for me at least I don't mean that, very proper expression mutual friend than become through mere formalities not you but me like the Spartan boy with the fox biting him, which I hope you'll excuse my bringing up for of all the tiresome boys that will go tumbling into every sort of company that boy's the tiresomest.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that she marched off to bed, and there was no mer-ry or confidential gossip that night.
-- Having copied her novel for the fourth time, read it to all her confidential friends, and submitted it with fear and trembling to three publish-ers, she at last disposed of it, on condition that she would cut it down one third, and omit all the parts which she par-ticularly admired.
-- The children throve under the paternal rule, for accurate, stedfast John brought order and obedience into Babydom, while Meg recovered her spirits and composed her nerves by plenty of wholesome exercise, a little pleasure, and much confidential conversation with her sensible husband.
-- she asked presently, finding it so pleasant to ask confidential questions and get delightful answers that she could not keep silent.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
-- How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends.
-- I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
-- As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so much for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets, but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms.
-- But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This led to a more friendly and confidential dialogue; from which Oliver discovered that his friend's name was Jack Dawkins, and that he was a peculiar pet and protege of the elderly gentleman before mentioned.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was most highly esteemed by Mr. Darcy, a most intimate, confidential friend.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor was soon called to the card-table by the conclusion of the first rubber, and the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on either side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward was not only without affection for the person who was to be his wife; but that he had not even the chance of being tolerably happy in marriage, which sincere affection on HER side would have given, for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement, of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he asked, assuming a more confidential air.
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