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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What!think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend!Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own!I wonder you should think it possible for me to have such feelings.
-- I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece.'
-- 'It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without 178 Emmaan intimate knowledge of their situation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah," said Matthew Moon, "she'll wish her cake dough if so be she's over intimate with that man."
-- "She's not over intimate with him," said Gabriel, indignantly.
-- That he had been from the time of Greenhill Fair until the fatal Christmas Eve in excited and unusual moods was known to those who had been intimate with him; but nobody imagined that there had shown in him unequivocal symptoms of the mental derangement which Bathsheba and Oak, alone of all others and at different times, had momentarily suspected.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Two intimate friends!"
-- As soon as she singles you out, other women will begin to lose their heads about you, and her enemies and rivals and intimate friends will all try to take you from her.
-- "Instead of taking a leap heroically from the window, she is falling headlong down the staircase," said her most intimate friend, the Duchesse de Langeais.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympa-thy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
-- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
-- But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its tooshort, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlishgiggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert was my intimate companion and friend.
-- Although I was not in the habit of counting Drummle as one of my intimate associates, I answered, "Yes."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my an-cient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side.
-- I remember when I was at Lilliput, the complexion of those diminutive people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this subject with a person of learning there, who was an intimate friend of mine, he said that my face appeared much fairer and smoother when he looked on me from the ground, than it did upon a nearer view, when I took him up in my hand, and brought him close, which he confessed was at first a very shocking sight.
-- I cannot forget, that an intimate friend of mine in Lilliput, took the freedom in a warm day, when I had used a good deal of exercise, to complain of a strong smell about me, although I am as little faulty that way, as most of my sex: but I suppose his faculty of smelling was as nice with regard to me, as mine was to that of this people.
-- It was of a man, who had murdered one of that gentleman's intimate acquaintance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something so very agreeable in being so intimate with such a waistcoat; in being called Tom, in such an intimate way, by such a voice; in being on such off-hand terms so soon, with such a pair of whiskers; that Tom was uncommonly pleased with himself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So they had given the gift of themselves, each to the youth with whom she had the most subtle and intimate ar-guments.
-- It was the terrible year 1917, and they were intimate as two people who stand together on a sinking ship.
-- He was at once too intimate with her and not intimate enough.
-- I like talking to them; but talking to them, though it makes me intimate in one direction, sets me poles apart from them as far as kissing is concerned.
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