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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There may perhaps be some secret in it," returned the Major.
-- But whatever might be his secret motives, such was his dream of colonization.
-- The truth is, they remembered Captain Grant's projects, and that is the secret of the whole affair.
-- I have found out the secret now."
-- Secret uneasiness kept him in a continual state of wakefulness.
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：
-- What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of.
-- And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
-- 'I said that it was not my secret and that I could not tell it to you.
-- Their secret had been forced from them.
-- 'Certainly, there is a boy who seems to have some secret errand.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was that Nastasia had entered into close and secret relations with the Epanchin girls a most unlikely rumour; another was that Nastasia had long satisfied herself of the fact that Gania was merely marrying her for money, and that his nature was gloomy and greedy, impatient and self-ish, to an extraordinary degree; and that although he had been keen enough in his desire to achieve a conquest before, yet since the two friends had agreed to exploit his passion for their own purposes, it was clear enough that he had begun to consider the whole thing a nuisance and a nightmare.
-- Possibly he counted on Gania's - complaisance; for Totski had long suspected that there existed some secret understanding between the general and his secretary.
-- 'You too, Alexandra Ivanovna, have a very lovely face; but I think you may have some secret sorrow.
-- He was clearly attracted by Varvara, and made no secret of his feelings.
-- he mur-mured, as though making answer to some secret thought of his own.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are always settling matters in secret behind my back, and have never yet told me, if you could help it, one word of your intentions.'
-- She went, therefore, to the room which her son Vulcan had made her, and the doors of which he had cunningly fas-tened by means of a secret key so that no other god could open them.
-- You are now going into the house of Hades under the secret places of the earth, and you leave me a sorrow-ing widow in your house.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To have told my secret would have given me away made a mere show and rarity of me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our little establishment here contains a secret or so, is a kind of Blue-Beard's chamber, in fact.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The secret of my birth ' 'The secret of your birth!Do you mean to say ' 'Gentlemen,' says the young man, very solemn, 'I will re-veal it to you, for I feel I may have confi- dence in you.
-- 'No, you ain't the only person that's had a secret of his birth.'
-- He took the old man by the hand and squeezed it, and says, 'That secret of your being: speak!'
-- Look at that shirt every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood!
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