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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They tried what thirst would do, by keeping them without drink for several days, but when they were brought to the river again, they simply quenched their thirst, and declined a more intimate acquaintance with the water.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is not a man with intimate friends.
-- The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two com-panions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer's spaniel.
-- To follow them and break into their intimate conversation seemed to be an outrage, and yet my clear duty was never for an instant to let him out of my sight.
-- What all this meant I could not imagine, but I was deeply ashamed to have witnessed so intimate a scene without my friend's knowledge.
-- One was Mr. Stapleton, a neighbour and intimate friend of Sir Charles's.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The company assembled at Nastasia Philipovna's con-sisted of none but her most intimate friends, and formed a very small party in comparison with her usual gatherings on this anniversary.
-- He had been intimate with Rogojin, for example, and a brotherly friendship had sprung up be-tween them yet did he really know him?
-- Quite accidentally, with the help of my sister, Varvara Ardalionovna Ptitsin, I obtained from one of her intimate friends, Madame Zoubkoff, a letter written to her - twen ty-five years ago, by Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff, then abroad.
-- Indeed, it would have been impossible for him to remain in ignorance considering the intimate relationship between him, Varvara Ardalionovna, and Ptitsin.
-- thought Prince S., for perhaps the hundredth time since he had entered into intimate relations with the family; but he liked these 'extraordinary people,' all the same.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another; to alter its chemical reac-tions and methods of growth; to modify the articulations of its limbs; and, indeed, to change it in its most intimate structure.
-- So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one car-dinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half-humanised brutes.
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：
-- It gave me an intimate sense of being a member of some mystic brotherhood.
-- You feel like a disembodied spirit, immaterial; and you seem to be able to touch beauty as though it were a palpable thing; and you feel an intimate communion with the breeze, and with the trees breaking into leaf, and with the iridescence of the river.
-- I grew more intimate with Blanche Stroeve, and I think, because I was English and she knew few English people, she was glad to see me.
-- He discussed the most intimate matters with a complete lack of self-consciousness.
-- She was civil and affable, but she could hardly conceal her intimate conviction that she was not quite as others were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No word of its real use, no hint of its nightly service, no allusion to its peculiar properties, had ever passed between him and his most intimate friends.
-- 'It's a strange way of going,' he said, glancing at Swiveller, 'very strange not to communicate with me who am such a close and intimate friend of his!Ah!he'll write to me no doubt, or he'll bid Nelly write yes, yes, that's what he'll do.
-- And now Mr Thomas Codlin, the misanthrope, after blowing away at the Pan's pipes until he was intensely wretched, took his station on one side of the checked drapery which concealed the mover of the figures, and putting his hands in his pockets prepared to reply to all questions and remarks of Punch, and to make a dismal feint of being his most intimate private friend, of believing in him to the fullest and most unlimited extent, of knowing that he enjoyed day and night a merry and glorious existence in that temple, and that he was at all times and under every circumstance the same intelligent and joyful person that the spectators then beheld him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had abundantly earned the privilege of intimate discussion of her sister's disappointment, by the friendly zeal with which he had endeavoured to soften it, and they always conversed with confidence.
-- was safely delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, by a combination of feelings and entanglements, almost deluded by that quality of voice and manner which, like a pathetic strain of music, seems ever a personal and intimate thing.
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