secret是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 秘密的， 机密的n. 秘密，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, however, he began to think as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too at last, I say, he began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine.
-- Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as could have told you.
-- The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedi-ence to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 14 A tale of two citiesIII The Night Shadows wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human crea-Ature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
-- A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beat-ing heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is re-ferable to this.
-- My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the in-15exorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end.
-- This is a secret service altogether.
-- That, it was certain the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of pass-ing and repassing between France and England, on secret business of which he could give no honest account.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents were saying, he felt on coming away from the Shtcherbatskys' that the secret spiritual bond which existed between him and Kitty had grown so much stronger that evening that some step must be taken.
-- "Pierre, give me the coffee," she said, addressing Petritsky, whom she called as a contraction of his surname, making no secret of her relations with him.
-- The sensation produced by Princess Myakaya's speeches was always unique, and the secret of the sensation she produced lay in the fact that though she spoke not always appropriately, as now, she said simple things with some sense in them.
-- It need not be said that he did not speak of his love to any of his comrades, nor did he betray his secret even in the wildest drinking bouts (though indeed he was never so drunk as to lose all control of himself).
-- And he experienced the strange feeling that had sometimes come upon him since his secret love for Anna.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you know, Mr. Passepartout, that this pretended tour in eighty days may conceal some secret errand perhaps a diplomatic mission?"
-- These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction.
-- Mr. Fogg and Aouda, happily unaffected by the roughness of the sea, ate with a good appetite, Fix being invited to share their repast, which he accepted with secret chagrin.
-- Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with an irresistible force, at the last moment?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- V In college Martin had been a "barb"--he had not belonged to a Greek Letter secret society.
-- Before the next lab hour I shall be glad if you will read Pater's 'Marius the Epicurean,' to derife from it the calmness which iss the secret of laboratory skill."
-- He was always making discoveries about the observations of life which she kept incubating in her secret little head while she made smoke rings with her cigarettes and smiled silently.
-- It was the theory of Crynssen County that it was quite all right for a young professional man to take a timely drink providing he kept it secret and made up for it by yearning over the clergy of the neighborhood.
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 went on hurried-ly and with apparent composure when both the boys at the counter guffawed and even the innkeeper smiled 'No mat-ter, I am not confounded by the wagging of their heads; for everyone knows everything about it already, and all that is secret is made open.
-- This letter, which remained in Mr. Svidriga脙炉lov's hands after her departure, she had written to refuse personal explanations and secret interviews, for which he was entreating her.
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