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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's of no use pretending to make a secret of matters now, after what I have told you already; you know she didn't marry old Bounderby for her own sake, or for his sake, but for my sake.
-- 'If I do not understand and I do not, sir' said Sissy, 'what your honour as a gentleman binds you to, in other matters:' the blood really rose in his face as she began in these words: 'I am sure I may rely upon it to keep my visit secret, and to keep secret what I am going to say.
-- A secret sense of having failed and been ridiculous a dread of what other fellows who went in for similar sorts of things, would say at his expense if they knew it so oppressed him, that what was about the very best passage in his life was the one of all others he would not have owned to on any account, and the only one that made him ashamed of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did not Galileo make a secret of his discoveries in connection with Saturn?
-- I will therefore be silent and strictly keep the secret I have discovered.
-- Besides, if the ascending path was more arduous and painful to clamber, I had one source of secret consolation and delight.
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：
-- That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple func-tion of sex.
-- She saw a secret little clearing, and a secret little hot made of rustic poles.
-- Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the PASSIONAL secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.
-- Of course the most valuable discoveries were kept secret as far as possible.
-- He had fulfilled his life-long secret yearning to get out of himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' that he had any secret remembrance which caused him trouble of mind remorse?
-- 'I do not understand what kind of secret remembrance you mean to infer that your father was a prey to,' she returned, after a silence.
-- No matter through what mistakes and discouragements, what ridicule (not unkindly meant, but deeply felt) of her youth and little figure, what humble consciousness of her own babyhood and want of strength, even in the matter of lifting and carrying; through how much weariness and hopelessness, and how many secret tears; she drudged on, until recognised as useful, even indispensable.
-- 'Mrs Clennam has been of great service to me; I don't know what we should have done without the employment she has given me; I am afraid it may not be a good return to become secret with her; I can say no more to-night, sir.
-- How young she seemed to him, or how old he to her; or what a secret either to the other, in that beginning of the destined interweaving of their stories, matters not here.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy rose to comply with outward composure, but a secret fear oppressed her, for the limes weighed upon her conscience.
-- One of these was the 'P.C', for as secret societies were the fashion, it was thought proper to have one, and as all of the girls admired Dickens, they called themselves the Pickwick Club.
-- How they laughed when the secret came out, never dream-ing how many love letters that little post office would hold in the years to come.
-- 'Wait and see if it doesn't bring you something worth having,' replied the boy, laugh-ing at the thought of a charming little secret which he fancied he knew.
-- 'Is your secret a nice one?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."
-- Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient "interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise.
-- But be all this as it may, certain it is, that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.
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