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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.
-- 52 Frankenstein I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will eas-ily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.
-- One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated my-54 Frankensteinself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
-- Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was supposed to be a secret and a surprise, anda man's got a right to keep his own engagement quiet, hasn't he?
-- Scarlett had no awe of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences andkeeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwittingMammy.
-- It was a secret he would never learn, foreveryone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believing thathis word was law.
-- "A secret to tell me?"
-- "Yes a secret I love you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
-- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
-- I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts,--a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten.
-- The contention came, after all, to this;--the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
-- The strange gentleman, with an air of authority not to be disputed, and with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us that would effectually do for each individual if he chose to disclose it, left the back of the settle, and came into the space between the two settles, in front of the fire, where he remained standing, his left hand in his pocket, and he biting the forefinger of his right.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he carried the child away to a secret place, where a nurse was obliged to suckle it, and he ran to the king and accused the queen of having allowed her child to be taken from her by the wild beasts.
-- Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air.
-- The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous ani-mal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the mean time the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what course should be taken with me; and I was af- 29terwards assured by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me.
-- I took up the two officers in my hands, put them first into my coat-pockets, and then into every other pocket about me, except my two fobs, and another secret pocket, which I had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little nec-essaries that were of no consequence to any but myself.
-- He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council, where I was told that some of the wis-est appeared, at least by their silence, to be of my opinion; but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some expressions which, by a side-wind, reflected on me.
-- That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the mo-roseness of his nature.
-- Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpet-ual misfortune to be mistaken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
-- You have never entertained in secret any other proposal?'
扩展阅读：