intimate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 亲密的, 密切的; 个人的, 私下的; vt. 暗示, 宣布, 通知，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have had the happiness, Doctor Manette, of being so intimate here,' so he at length began, 'for some year and a half, that I hope the topic on which I am about to touch may not ' He was stayed by the Doctor's putting out his hand to stop him.
-- His way taking him past Tellson's, and he both banking at Tellson's and knowing Mr. Lorry as the intimate friend of the Manettes, it entered Mr. Stryver's mind to enter the bank, and reveal to Mr. Lorry the brightness of the Soho horizon.
-- The latter he was intimate with, and affectionately embraced.
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：
-- * It is the custom in Denmark for intimate acquaintances to use the second person singular, 'Du,' (thou) when speak-ing to each other.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One-third of the men in the government, the older men, had been friends of his father's, and had known him in petticoats; another third were his intimate chums, and the remainder were friendly acquaintances.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- The families of the Levins and the Shtcherbatskys were old, noble Moscow families, and had always been on intimate and friendly terms.
-- "Forgive me for coming, but I couldn't pass the day without seeing you," he went on, speaking French, as he always did to avoid using the stiff Russian plural form, so impossibly frigid between them, and the dangerously intimate singular.
-- But the doctor, a celebrated Petersburg doctor, who was an intimate acquaintance of Alexey Alexandrovitch, took up a great deal of time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was astonished by the familiarity; he remembered that she had once gone to a charity ball in Zenith but he had not known that she was so intimate with the peerage.
-- You have been seen in places of very low repute, and you have been intimate with a man who took it upon himself to insult me, the Founder, our guests, and the University.
-- Perhaps he was too intimate with them.
-- At St. Luke he had an intimate friend in Dr. Tromp--at least they had met twice, at the annual meetings of the Pony River Valley Medical Association.
-- With the other women of the Group Leora was never so intimate as with Clara Tredgold, but they liked her, the more because she was a heretic whose vices, her smoking, her indolence, her relish of competent profanity, disturbed Mrs. Pickerbaugh and Mrs. Irving Watters.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must certainly be a man of authority and an intimate acquaintance.
-- A little more, and their companionship, this mother and this sister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of conversation, in face of the utter impossibility of re-ally speaking about anything, would have been beyond his power of endurance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I ain't been azackly as intimate with you.
-- I had grown to be so accustomed to the Micawbers, and had beenso intimate with them in their distresses, and was so utterlyfriendless without them, that the prospect of being thrown uponsome new shift for a lodging, and going once more amongunknown people, was like being that moment turned adrift intomy present life, with such a knowledge of it ready made, asexperience had given me.
-- An old and intimate friend.
-- says Em'ly, "Him that I've know'd so intimate somany years, and like so much.
-- 'You are not very intimate with Miss Murdstone, are you?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
-- That would have been too dreadful! What an escape! Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world.'
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