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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You do hate it, yes," she said, intimate and gratified.
-- She looked at him for a long time, intimate and playful, then she gave a short little laugh.
-- "Oh no, I like it awfully," laughed Ursula, a little bit excited and bewildered, because Hermione seemed to be compelling her, coming very close to her, as if intimate with her; and yet, how could she be intimate?
-- Suddenly the girl turned to Gerald, and said, in a rather formal, polite voice, with the distant manner of a woman who accepts her position as a social inferior, yet assumes intimate camaraderie with the male she addresses:"Do you know London well?"
-- "They are on intimate terms," said Birkin.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, yes oh, you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words, the speaker tapped himself on the waistcoat to intimate that he was the Jem Groves so highly eulogized; sparred scientifically at a counterfeit Jem Groves, who was sparring at society in general from a black frame over the chimney-piece; and, applying a half-emptied glass of spirits and water to his lips, drank Jem Groves's health.
-- This is Mr Swiveller, my intimate friend a gentleman of good family and great expectations, but who, having rather involved himself by youthful indiscretion, is content for a time to fill the humble station of a clerk humble, but here most enviable.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then the prisoner denies that she had intimate relations with Kartinkin?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered: I was, so to speak, attenuated was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction possibly a far-reaching explosion would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions into the Unknown.
-- They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it.
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